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Old comments

It is of great value to note that in addition to the others mentioned here, St Peter, Bishop of Sebaste, is the younger brother to St Basil. St Peter was present at the Second Ecumenical Council.

+What about creat a disambiguation page on Saint Basil? It would be aesthetically more pleasant.

Article improvement drive

Let's see if we can expand and improve this article. I'll volunteer to improve the references, expand the biographical sections and add material on monasticism. We can use your help. Majoreditor (talk) 05:48, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great work so far. I think the article has moved from start class to a weak "B". I'm going to upgade it. Let's keep going!

I cut some passive constructions, but don't have the time to do more.Jweaver28 (talk) 12:53, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Birthplace

The statement "Basil was born into the wealthy family of Basil the Elder, a famous rhetor,[7] and Emmelia of Caesarea around 330 in Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia[8]" is absent from the indicated footnote i.e. Rousseau (1994), p. 1. Rousseau does not even mention Basil's birthplace. He simply says that "Basil belonged to a relatively prosperous and locally prominent family in Pontus". I am about to correct this and add other references that are more enlightening on this subject.--Dipa1965 (talk) 12:30, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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death of Basil

I am reading Retrieving Nicaea by Khaled Anatolios. On page 72 he says "... Basil of Caesarea apparently died of a heart attack after reading Eunomius's Apology", and references Philostorgius's Church History 3.15 and 8.12. I can't find any on-line text, and my local library doesn't have the work (I'm not an academic). It seems to me that a second-hand source (Anatolios) might not be what Wiki requires for a reference. Am I correct? Would I need to verify the actual text? or would I need to be able to link to an on-line text? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 17:26, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Coptic?

Why is his name given in Coptic? Everything would have been written in Greek in his day, and he was not Egyptian. in any case it appears as boxes in my screen. Shall I delete it?--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 17:28, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]