by David Ramirez We are blessed to be able to celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea this year. The lion’s share of attention will be rightly paid to the Nicene Creed, the triune nature of God, and heroic confessors of the faith such as Athanasius. However, we ought not overlook the man who convened the council — Imperator Caesar Flavius Valerius Constantinus Augustus. No bishop convened the council, and certainly no pope, but the ruler of the Roman Empire. In the calen...