“I have experienced this in others and in myself, for I walked not in the way of righteousness.… But the Almighty God, who sits in the court of heaven, granted what I did not deserve.” The first Life of Constantine describes its subject as “resplendent with every virtue that godliness bestows.” This praise-filled biography came from the hand of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, and perhaps Constantine’s greatest admirer. It is the classic image that prevailed