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| Sacred Service in the Church of the Apostles on the Occasion of Constantine's Funeral.
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Chapter LXXI.—Sacred Service in the Church of the Apostles on
the Occasion of Constantine’s Funeral.
As soon
as [Constantius] had withdrawn himself with the military train, the
ministers of God came forward, with the multitude and the whole
congregation of the faithful, and performed the rites of Divine worship
with prayer. At the same time the tribute of their praises was given to
the character of this blessed prince, whose body rested on a lofty and
conspicuous monument, and the whole multitude united with the priests
of God in offering prayers for his soul, not without tears,—nay,
rather with much weeping; thus performing an office consonant with the
desires of the pious deceased.3363
| 3363 [Alluding to his desire of being buried in the church of the
apostles, and sharing their honors, as noticed in ch.
60.—Bag.] | In this
respect also the favor of God was manifested to his servant, in that he
not only bequeathed the succession of the empire to his own beloved
sons, but that the earthly tabernacle of his thrice blessed soul,
according to his own earnest wish, was permitted to share the monument
of the apostles; was associated with the honor of their name, and with
that of the people of God; was honored by the performance of the sacred
ordinances and mystic service; and enjoyed a participation in the
prayers of the saints. Thus, too, he continued to possess imperial
power even after death, controlling, as though with renovated life, a
universal dominion, and retaining in his own name, as Victor, Maximus,
Augustus, the sovereignty of the Roman world.3364
| 3364 [It appears that an interregnum of about three months took place,
during which all the laws and edicts continued to be issued in the name
of Constantine, as before his death.—Bag.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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