| | '''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> |