The Cappadocians and the Last Days
Today’s fourth-century saints, Saints Basil of Caesarea (+379) and Gregory of Nazianzen (+389), comprise, together with Basil’s brother Gregory of Nyssa (+395), the trio known as the Cappadocian Fathers, from the region now in modern Turkey whence they hailed. Gregory’s sister Macrina had turned the family estate into a monastery, and they dedicated their lives[…]