Note 285 — Chapter XIII · THE BASILICAS OF THE LATERAN, SANTA CROCE, AND S. LORENZO.
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Sta. Helena is claimed as an English saint, and all the best authorities allow that she was born in England,—according to Gibbon, at York—according to others, at Colchester, which town bears as its arms a cross between three crowns, in allusion to this claim. Some say that she was an innkeeper's daughter, others that her father was a powerful British prince, Coilus or Coel.