1.0Medievalists.nethttps://www.medievalists.netSandra Alvarezhttps://www.medievalists.net/author/sandra-alvarez/The Pseudo-Amphilochian Vita Basilii: An Apocryphal Life of Saint Basil the Great - Medievalists.netrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="n2J8Q8uL8G"><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/the-pseudo-amphilochian-vita-basilii-an-apocryphal-life-of-saint-basil-the-great/">The Pseudo-Amphilochian Vita Basilii: An Apocryphal Life of Saint Basil the Great</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/the-pseudo-amphilochian-vita-basilii-an-apocryphal-life-of-saint-basil-the-great/embed/#?secret=n2J8Q8uL8G" width="600" height="338" title="“The Pseudo-Amphilochian Vita Basilii: An Apocryphal Life of Saint Basil the Great” — Medievalists.net" data-secret="n2J8Q8uL8G" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/220px-St._Basil_the_Great_lower_register_of_sanctuary.jpg220293There is yet another aspect of Basil's greatness which is none of his making: of Basil it is possible to know more and to know it more surely, than it is of any other person, with the possible exception of Julian the Apostate, who lived in the first millennium A.D. The physical relics may have disappeared, but the literary remains constitute a remarkable dossier of high historical value.