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... Basil the Great ( 329-79 ) . Basil , whose period of study at Athens with his compatriot Gregory of Nazianzus has been made familiar by Newman , spent a year ( 357 ) visiting the monks of Egypt , Palestine and Syria before founding a ...
... Basil the Great ( 329-79 ) . Basil , whose period of study at Athens with his compatriot Gregory of Nazianzus has been made familiar by Newman , spent a year ( 357 ) visiting the monks of Egypt , Palestine and Syria before founding a ...
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... Basil wrote no rule and founded no order comparable to that of Pachomius . His so - called rules are spiritual counsels and commentaries on Scripture . Nevertheless his influence was great and lasting . By turning away from the hermit ...
... Basil wrote no rule and founded no order comparable to that of Pachomius . His so - called rules are spiritual counsels and commentaries on Scripture . Nevertheless his influence was great and lasting . By turning away from the hermit ...
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... Basil in some such way as Benedict in the west crystallised the doctrine of the fathers of the desert as set out by Cassian . But neither Basil nor Theodore ever became for the eastern monks what the rule of Benedict or the Charter of ...
... Basil in some such way as Benedict in the west crystallised the doctrine of the fathers of the desert as set out by Cassian . But neither Basil nor Theodore ever became for the eastern monks what the rule of Benedict or the Charter of ...
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