Basil the Elder
Saint Basil the Elder (
. His feast day is 30 May.Life
The son of Macrina the Elder, Basil is said to have moved with his family to the shores of the Black Sea during the persecution of Christians under Galerius.[1]
He is said to have been a well known lawyer and rhetorician,Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, Naucratius, and Saint Macrina the Younger.[3][4] After his death, his family property was converted into a monastic community for female virgins.[5]
Notes
References
- Corrigan, Kevin (21 October 2009), Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in 4th Century, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7546-9287-4, retrieved 2013-02-25
- Holböck, Ferdinand (1 October 2002), Married Saints and Blesseds, Ignatius Press, ISBN 978-0-89870-843-1, retrieved 2013-02-25
- Keenan, Mary (1950), "De Professione Christiana and De Perfectione: A Study of the Ascetical Doctrine of Saint Gregory of Nyssa", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 5, Dumbarton Oaks: 167+169–207, JSTOR 1291077
- Smith, J Warren (April 2006), "The Body of Paradise and the Body of the Resurrection: Gender and the Angelic Life in Gregory of Nyssa's "De Hominis Opificio"", The Harvard Theological Review, 99 (2), Cambridge University Press: 207–228, JSTOR 4125294