Cathedral of Tyre -- answers
2001.09.05 06:54
I found some answers to the questions regarding the Cathedral of Tyre in T.D. Barnes' Constantine and Eusebius pp. 161-62. For brevities sake, here are the facts:
1. it was Maximinus Daia in Spring/Summer 313 that "granted the right to [re]building churches," and the source for this is in Eusebius Eccl. Hist. book 9.
2. Eusebius "in a speech which forms the greater part of Book Ten if the History; he delivered the speech in Tyre about 315, when the rebuilt basilica was dedicated."
I think it is now safe to say that the rebuilt Cathedral of Tyre should not be directly attributed to Constantine. This then seems to open further implication that the churches Constantine is responsible for are of a distinct set of churches that are special because of their unprecedented Imperial initiation and funding.
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