[Havoc]

Constantine was anything but Christian though he may have used Christianity politically, he worshipped Mithra, the pagan god of the soldiers of Rome. He followed those rites all his life and was, on his death, put through Mithraic rites to make him a god. There are a great many things stated about Constantine that are not much more than celebrated myth. If these guys had bothered look beyond the end of their noses they might have noted the import of December 25 to the followers of Mithra. Not a well written or researched piece.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***he worshipped Mithra***

I thought he worshiped the SUN. When the sun flared he had the soldiers put his version of the sun symbol on their shields and won the battle to become the only emperor of Rome.

Have you ever read Frasier's THE GOLDEN BOUGH? There is more Winter solstice, Easter, Summer solstice( weeping for Tammuz) than you can shake a stick at.
I love his presentation of how one became a priest of Attis!