Constantine the Great:

People condemned to the games or the mines should be branded in the hands or calves, not the face, which is formed in the image of the heavenly Son.

— Constantine the Great Ancient

First Christian Roman Emperor

Legal decree concerning punishment for criminals, from the Theodosian Code

c. 314 CE

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