His Coins and Portraits Show Him at Prayer

How deeply the power of divine faith had taken hold of his soul can be seen from this: he ordered his likeness to be stamped on the empire’s gold coins with the eyes lifted up, in the posture of prayer to God, and this money circulated throughout the Roman world. In some cities, too, his full-length portrait was placed over the entrance gates of the palaces, with the eyes raised to heaven and the hands spread out as if in prayer.