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St. Gregory and St. Basil met as students in Athens and stayed friends for life. Two years after Basil died, Gregory gave this long funeral oration: their school days, Basil's work as bishop, his care for the poor and his stand against the emperor.
It is a portrait of one saint by another, and a moving one.
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Translated by Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 7 (1894), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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