This volume publishes for the first time critical editions and English translations of three Latin hagiographies dedicated to the empress, offering an introduction and commentaries to contextualize these virtually unknown works.

Marco Conti is Professor of Classics at the American University of Rome and Loyola Chicago University. His publications include The Life of Saint Helia (with Virginia Burrus; Oxford University Press, 2013) and Priscillian of Avila: The Complete Works (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Her publications include Ancient Ecopoetics: On Cosmologies, Saints, and Things in Early Christianity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) and Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions (with Mark Jordan and Karmen MacKendrick; Fordham University Press, 2010).
Dennis Trout is Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the University of Missouri. His publications include Damasus of Rome: The Epigraphic Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (University of California Press, 1999).

• Abbreviations


• List of Illustrations


• Note on Nomenclature and Titles


• Timeline


• Stemma of Constantina's Family


• Map of Constantina's Rome


• Plan of the Via Nomentana Complex


• Introduction: The Making of a Saint


• The Life of Saint Constantina the Virgin


• On the Feast of Saint Constantia the Virgin (The Epitome)


• Nicolaus Maniacoria's Life of the Blessed Constantia the Virgin


• Appendices


• Works Cited


• Index of Biblical Quotations and References


• Index of Proper Names in the Translations


• General Index