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[[Image:Stbasil.jpg|right|thumb|200px| St. Basil]]
[[Image:Stbasil.jpg|right|thumb|200px| St. Basil]]
'''Saint Basil the Great''' (born 329, died 379) was a man of vast learning and constant activity, genuine eloquence and immense charity. St. Basil became [[Bishop]] and Archbishop of Caesarea. He fought [[simony]], aided the victims of drought and famine, strove for a better clergy, insisted on a rigid clerical discipline, fearlessly denounced evil wherever he detected it. Saint Basil foundrf the first large-scale hospital, the Basiliad, around 369 AD in modern-day [[Turkey]].<ref>[https://hekint.org/2017/02/24/reconstructing-the-worlds-first-hospital-the-basiliad/#:~:text=We%20now%20have%20sufficient%20evidence,not%20unlike%20later%20Christian%20hospitals). Reconstructing the world’s first hospital: The Basiliad]</ref>
'''Saint Basil the Great''' (born 329, died 379) was a man of vast learning and constant activity, genuine eloquence and immense charity. St. Basil became [[Bishop]] and Archbishop of Caesarea. He fought [[simony]], aided the victims of drought and famine, strove for a better clergy, insisted on a rigid clerical discipline, fearlessly denounced evil wherever he detected it. Saint Basil foundrf the first large-scale [[hospital]], the Basiliad, around 369 AD in modern-day [[Turkey]].<ref>[https://hekint.org/2017/02/24/reconstructing-the-worlds-first-hospital-the-basiliad/#:~:text=We%20now%20have%20sufficient%20evidence,not%20unlike%20later%20Christian%20hospitals). Reconstructing the world’s first hospital: The Basiliad]</ref>
The father of [[monasticism]], he became a monk and he wrote a set of rules for the monastic life that are still used today. His contributions to the Church were many. An accomplished statesmanship, a man of great personal holiness, and one of the great orators of [[Christianity]]. He is called the [[Greek]] [[Doctor of the Church]].
The father of [[monasticism]], he became a monk and he wrote a set of rules for the monastic life that are still used today. His contributions to the Church were many. An accomplished statesmanship, a man of great personal holiness, and one of the great orators of [[Christianity]]. He is called the [[Greek]] [[Doctor of the Church]].