Saint Basil the Great
c. 329 – 379 · Post-Nicene Greek Fathers (Cappadocians) · Cappadocian
Commemorated January 1 → · also the Three Hierarchs, Jan 30
Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia; brother of St Gregory of Nyssa and St Macrina; intimate friend of St Gregory the Theologian. One of the Three Holy Hierarchs of the Orthodox Church (with St Gregory the Theologian and St John Chrysostom). His Divine Liturgy is celebrated on the Sundays of Great Lent, the Eves of Nativity and Theophany, and Pascha. The author of On the Holy Spirit and the Hexaemeron homilies, and of the great monastic Rules that founded Eastern coenobitic monasticism.
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Icon: Basil of Caesarea · Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain