He was son of Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus ... his friend Basil in a newly founded monastery. At 41, Gregory was chosen suffragan bishop of Caesarea and like his good friend St. Basil, had ...

With his friend Gregory ... Basil resisted the pressure from Emperor Valens, an Arian himself, who wanted to keep him in silence and admit the heretics to communion. No wonder, when the great St ...

Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, “belongs not to the Church of Caesarea alone, nor merely to his own time, nor was he of benefit only to his own kinsmen, but rather to all ...