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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Basi'lius or Basil the Great or St. Basil (search)
Basi'lius or Basil the Great or St. Basil
2. Bishop of CAESAREIA in Cappadocia, commonly called Basil the Great, was born A. D. 329, of a noble Christian family which had long been settled at Caesareia, and some members of which had suffered in the Maximinian persecution. His father, also named Basil, was an eminent advocate and teacher of rhetoric at Caesareia: his mother's name was Emmelia.
He was brought up in the principles of the Christian faith partly by his parents, but chiefly by his grandmother, Macrina, who resided at Neocaesareia in Pontus, and had been a hearer of Gregory Thaumaturgus, bishop of that city. His education was continued at Caesareia in Cappadocia, and then at Constantinople. Here, according to some accounts, or, according to others, at Antioch, he studied under Libanius.
The statements of ancient writers on this matter are confused; but we learn from a correspondence between Libanius and Basil, that they were acquainted when Basil was a young man.
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Grego'rius Nazianze'nus
the elder, was bishop of Nazianzus in Cappadocia for about forty-five years, A. D. 329-374, and father of the celebrated Gregory Nazianzen.
He was a person of rank, and he held the highest magistracies in Nazianzus without increasing his fortune.
In religion, he was originally a hypsistarian, a sect who derived their name from their acknowledgment of one supreme God (u(/yistos), and whose religion seems, from what little is known of it, to have been a sort of compound o miraculous dream, and by the teaching of certain bishops, who passed through Nazianzus, on their way to the council of Nicaea, A. D. 325. His baptism was marked by omens, which were soon fulfilled in his elevation to the see of Nazianzus, about A. D. 329.
He governed well, and resisted Arianism. His eldest son, Gregory, was born after he became bishop. In 360 he was entrapped by the Arians, through his desire for peace, into the signature of the confession of Ariminum, an act which caused the