Helena

The life of Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, tracing her unlikely rise from humble origins to a determined spiritual quest culminating in the search for the True Cross.

"a superlatively well done book" —Chicago Tribune

Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius. Leaving home for lands unknown, she spends her adulthood seeking truth in the religions, mythologie...