- Name
- Elena (Femenino)
- Meaning
- Procedente de Helenia, from Griego
- Celebrate
- Helen
- Other saints
- Other saints named Elena
- Secular name
- Flavia Iulia Helena
- Born
- en İzmit, in current Turkey
- Dead
- August 18th 0329 in Roma, in current Italy
- Celebration
- August 18th
In Rome, on the via Labicana, Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, who had a singular interest in helping the poor and came to the Church piously confused among the faithful. Having made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem to discover the places of birth of Christ, of his passion and resurrection, She honored the nativity scene and the cross of the Lord with worthy of veneration basilicas (c.329). Roman martyrology