Gifts to the Bishops, and Letters to the People

The Life of Constantine

Book 3

Gifts to the Bishops, and Letters to the People

After this brilliant festival had been celebrated, the emperor graciously received all his guests and generously added to the favors he had already given them, presenting gifts in person to each one according to his rank. He also informed those who had not been present of what the synod had done, in a letter written in his own hand. This letter too I will set down here in my account of his life, as if carving it on a monument. It read as follows: