In the E Ch. he is venerated as a saint and regarded as equal with the apostles, or as the 13th apostle. The most diverse opinions have been held on Constantine’s personal relations to Christianity and the motives that governed his imperial policy. The extreme view of the E Ch. referred to above was held by Eusebius* of Caesarea in Life of Constantine. The other extreme (first put forward by Ammianus Marcellinus [ca. 330–ca. 400], a pagan writer) sees in Constantine nothing but a shrewd, calculating