Excerpt from The Lives and Times of the Popes, Vol. 3 of 10: Including the Complete Gallery of the Portraits of the Pontiffs; Reproduced From "Effigies Pontificum Romanorum Dominici Basae"; Being a Series of Volumes Giving the History of the World During the Christian EraThe devout acts of Helena, mother of the great Constan tine, the pious princess who discovered the Holy Sepulchre, are well known. Till this time Christians, it is true, could visit it through a thousand perils; but pilgrims could pass through by the power of money, and their courage braved the difficulty of the journey, and the exactions with which.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.