His Death at Noon on the Last Day of Pentecost

All these events took place during a most important festival, I mean the solemn and holy feast of Pentecost. It is marked out by a period of seven weeks and sealed with that one day on which, as the holy Scriptures testify, our common Savior was taken up into heaven and the Holy Spirit came down among men. In the course of this feast the emperor received the privileges I have described. On the last day of all, which one might rightly call the feast of feasts, about midday he was taken away into the presence of his God. He left his mortal remains to his fellow mortals, and carried into fellowship with God the part of his being that was able to know and love him. Such was the close of Constantine’s mortal life. Let us now turn to what followed. [a]