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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 1, Of the Birth of the Holy Martin, and of the Invention of the Cross
Constantine was the thirty-fourth to hold the imperial power of Rome; he reigned in prosperity for thirty years. In the eleventh year of his reign, when peace was restored to the churches after the death of Diocletian, in the town of Sabaria in Pannonia the most blessed bishop Martin was born of pagan parents, though not of the lowest rank. This Constantine, in the twentieth year of his reign, put to death his son Crispus by poison, and his wife Fausta by the heat of a bath, believing that they purposed treason against his throne. In his time the venerable wood of the Lord’s Cross was discovered through the zeal of his mother Helen, the Hebrew Judas revealing the spot, who was afterwards baptized and named Quiriacus.
The historian Eusebius carried his chronicle down to this time. From the twenty-first year of Constantine it was continued by the priest Jerome; he relates that, at the request of this emperor, the priest Juvencus wrote a metrical version of the Gospels.