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Saint Basil : the letters

BASIL the Great was born ca. AD 330 at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. For a short time he held a chair of rhetoric at Caesarea, and was then baptized. He visited monasteries in Egypt and Palestine and sought out the most famous hermits in Syria and elsewhere to learn how to lead a pious and aescetic life; but he decided that communal monastic life and work were best. About 360 he founded in Pontus a convent to which his sister and widowed mother belonged. Ordained a presbyter in 365 in 370 he succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea, which included authority over all Pontus. He died in 379. Even today his reform of monastic life in the east is a basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries. -- JACKET.

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  • "Letters (Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379)"@en
  • "Saint Basil"
  • "Address to young men on reading Greek literature"
  • "Address to young men on reading Greek literature"@en
  • "Basil"
  • "Letters"@en

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  • "BASIL the Great was born ca. AD 330 at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. For a short time he held a chair of rhetoric at Caesarea, and was then baptized. He visited monasteries in Egypt and Palestine and sought out the most famous hermits in Syria and elsewhere to learn how to lead a pious and aescetic life; but he decided that communal monastic life and work were best. About 360 he founded in Pontus a convent to which his sister and widowed mother belonged. Ordained a presbyter in 365 in 370 he succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea, which included authority over all Pontus. He died in 379. Even today his reform of monastic life in the east is a basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries. -- JACKET."@en
  • "Basil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea. His reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries."@en
  • "Basil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea. His reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries."
  • "Brieven van de heilige kerkvader (330-379)."

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  • "The letters ; Address to young men on reading Greek literature"
  • "Saint Basil : the letters"@en
  • "Saint Basil : the letters"
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  • "Saint Basil : the letters ; with an English translation by Roy. J. Deferrari"@en
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  • "Letters"
  • "The letters : in four volumes"
  • "Letters ... Translated by Sister Agnes Clare Way ... with note by Roy J. Deferrari. (Reprinted.)"
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  • "The letters with an English translation by Roy J. Deferrari"@en
  • "Saint Basil. The Letters. With an English translation by the Rev. J. Deferrari"
  • "The letters : with an English translation by Roy J. Deferrari"@en
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  • "Saint Basil, the letters"
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