HelenaThe type of a lovely woman, patient and hopeful, strong in feeling,
and sustained through trials by her enduring and heroic faith. ( Helena(St.). Mother of Constantine the Great. She is represented in royal robes, wearing an imperial crown, because she was empress. Sometimes she carries in her hand a model of the Holy Sepulchre, an edifice raised by her in the East; sometimes she bears a large cross, typical of her alleged discovery of that upon which the Saviour was crucified; sometimes she also bears the three nails by which He was affixed to the cross. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Helena from Infoplease:
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