It would be interesting to know what sources the Lutheran Fathers had to assess Constantine. Commemorating Constantine as an “exemplary Christian ruler” goes too far. We can be grateful for his efforts to strengthen Christ's Church and weaken paganism, but we must reckon with his reign's whole history. The same Constantine who toppled idols and convened Nicaea remained Rome’s life-long pagan Pontiff, persecuted Nicene Christians, and was baptized by the arch-Arian bishop, Eusebius of Nicomedia. We can rightly rejoice in the good God granted through Constantine while placing the best construction on his conflicting legacy. However, heaping a Christian commemoration upon him, just because the Reformers did so, is wrong. As a wise Ft. Wayne professor once told me, "Luther was wrong about some stuff ... Get over it!"