Saint Basil the Great (Subscribe)
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The Ecole Glossary: Basil the Great
http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/basil.html
Biographical sketch, by Theresa A. Winters.
St. Basil the Great, Confessor, Archbishop of Caesarea
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/BASIL.htm
From Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
St. Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea
http://home.it.net.au/~jgrapsas/pages/basil.htm
Brief hagiography.
St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen
http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/kids/saints/0102.asp
The story of these two friends, suited to children.
Sketch of the Life and Works of Saint Basil
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf208.vi.i.i.html
Prolegomena, by Blomfield Jackson, from A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, second series, vol. 8. Lengthy (223K) introduction to the life and writings of Basil the Great.
Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea-Cappadocia
http://www.oca.org/FSLivesAllSaints.asp?SID=4&M=1&D=1
Fairly lengthy hagiography, from a Russian Orthodox handbook of saints' lives. (Note, this is the second item on the page.)
Saint Basil the Great
http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19990101/SAINTS/stbasil.htm
Three accounts of his life: for children ages 0-8, children 8-14, and age 14-adult. By Catherine Fournier.
Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas: St. Basil the Great
http://www.orthodox.net/saints/st_basil.html
Short biography, by Basil Arrick.
Patron Saints Index: Basil the Great
http://saints.sqpn.com/saintb05.htm
Illustrated profile of the Father of Eastern Monasticism.
Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf207.iii.xxvi.html
By St. Gregory of Nazianzus (the Theologian). Browne-Swallow translation of Oration 43, with brief introduction and notes. From the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, second series, vol. 7.
Catholic Online: St. Basil the Great
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=261
Biography.
Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Basil the Great
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02330b.htm
Biographical article on the Bishop of Caesarea, who is one of the Cappadocian Fathers, Doctor of the Church, and brother of St. Gregory of Nyssa.
Basil the Great, Bishop, Theologian
http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/06/14.html
Biographical profile. With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.
A Eulogy for Basil the Great
http://www.sage.edu/faculty/salomd/nyssa/basil.html
By St. Gregory of Nyssa, his brother. Richard McCambly translation, with introduction and notes.