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4 unusual facts about Basil of Caesarea


Firmilian

His great successor in Cappadocia, St Basil of Caesarea, mentions his view on heretical baptism without accepting it (Epistle clxxxviii), and says, when speaking of the expression "with the Holy Ghost" in the Doxology: "That our own Firmilian held this faith is testified by the lógoi which he has left" (De Spiritu Sancto, xxix, 74).

Giovanni Antoniano

Antoniano published (Cologne, 1537), the work of Gregory of Nyssa on the creation of man and the Hexameron of Basil of Caesarea, both in the Latin translation of Dionysius Exiguus.

Spherical Earth

Learned Christian authors such as Basil of Caesarea, Ambrose and Augustine of Hippo were clearly aware of the sphericity of the Earth.

Valentinianus Galates

According to Socrates of Constantinople, Dominica told her husband that she had been having visions that their son’s illness was a punishment for Valen’s ill treatment of the bishop Basil of Caesarea.


Pap of Armenia

Pap had nominated a certain Husik as a replacement and sent him for consecration in Caesarea, the bishop of Caesarea Basil refused to consecrate the nominee but Valens requested that Basil quickly resolve the situation by finding a new nominee acceptable to Pap.

Sources Chrétiennes

Clement of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, and the Cappadocians (Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus especially) are strongly represented, but a section is also devoted to Western spiritual writers such as Bernard of Clairvaux.


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