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  1. Oct 11, 2024 · Kelly Marcum, January 2, 2024 – National Catholic Register. St. Basil the Great is one of those giants in our faith whose words, filled with the fire of conviction, echo across the centuries. A fourth-century bishop, he took up the fight against Arianism after the death of St. Athanasius, defying worldly powers and even pressure from his ...

  2. Oct 12, 2024 · St. Basil is the first saint we encounter in the civil new year. He was one of the greatest saints and theologians of the fourth century, and his impact on the Christian East is enormous. He was born around AD 330 and died around AD 379. If you ever wondered about the formative influence of a religious family, look to St. Basil’s.

  3. 4 days ago · Ss Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Doctors of the Church. Basil: Born about 330 at Caesarea (Turkey); died there on 1 January 379. First a hermit, then bishop of his native city. Noted for his pioneering monastic rule, and for writings which developed the doctrines of the incarnation and of the divinity of the Holy Spirit.

  4. Oct 6, 2024 · Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen lived in the latter half of the 4th century. After a respectable Christian upbringing, these men studied in Athens and afterwards began to follow a monastic way of life. As Bishop of Caesarea, St. Basil wrote rules for monks and integrated social programs into monasteries. St.

  5. Oct 11, 2024 · Saint Basil the Blessed, church constructed on Red Square in Moscow between 1554 and 1560 by Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible), as a votive offering for his military victories over the khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan. The church was dedicated to the protection and intercession of the Virgin, but it came.

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  6. 5 days ago · Gregory III (731-741) consecrated a chapel in the Basilica of Saint Peter to all the saints and fixed the anniversary for November 1. A basilica of the Apostles already existed in Rome, and its ...

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  8. 4 days ago · The Penance of St. John Chrysostom. Engraving by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509. The saint can be seen in the background on all fours, while the princess and their baby dominate the foreground. A late medieval legend relates that, when John Chrysostom was a hermit in the desert, he was approached by a royal princess in distress.

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