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Basil had shown a marked interest in the poor and afflicted. He created the Basileiad institution, a house for the care of friendless strangers, the medical treatment of the sick poor, and the industrial training of the unskilled. Basil's teachings regarding the social obligations of the wealthy were so forcibly preached that modern sociologists have ventured to claim him as one of their own.
Basil had shown a marked interest in the poor and afflicted. He created the Basileiad institution, a house for the care of friendless strangers, the medical treatment of the sick poor, and the industrial training of the unskilled. Basil's teachings regarding the social obligations of the wealthy were so forcibly preached that modern sociologists have ventured to claim him as one of their own.
<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02330b.htm St. Basil the Great] Catholic Encyclopedia</ref>
<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02330b.htm St. Basil the Great] Catholic Encyclopedia</ref>
==Prayer for the departed==
Saint Basil the Great, like all the other Church Fathers, taught the importance of praying for the faithful departed. St. Basil wrote, "I think that the noble athletes of God, who have wrestled all their lives with the invisible enemies, after they have escaped all of their persecutions and have come to the end of life, are examined by the prince of this world; and if they are found to have any wounds from their wrestling, any stains or effects of sin, they are detained. If, however they are found unwounded and without stain, they are, as unconquered, brought by Christ into their rest."<ref>(Homilies on the Psalms 7:2)</ref>
==Death==
==Death==