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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Saints from Roman Egypt, Greek mystics, 4th-century Christian saints, Byzantine saints, Christmas gift-bringers
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Basil  St. Basil  Basil of Caesarea  Basil the Great  St. Basil the Great
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(Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379) WordNet 3.0
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(Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was a bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor. Wikipedia
4th century leading churchman Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
Church Father
Doctor of the Church
saint
theologian
homo
PART OF
Three Holy Hierarchs
Cappadocian Fathers
CANONIZATION STATUS
prelate
CATEGORY DOMAIN
Roman Catholic
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Byzantine Empire
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Nordisk familjebok
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
De Viris Illustribus
+2 relations
FATHER
Basil the Elder
FEAST DAY
January 2
GIVEN NAME
Vassilios
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
Victoria and Albert Museum
HONORIFIC PREFIX
Doctor of the Church
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Ancient Greek
Latin
LIFESTYLE
mysticism
vegetarianism
MOTHER
Emmelia of Caesarea
OCCUPATION
writer
philosopher
Catholic priest
theologian
bishop
PLACE OF BIRTH
Kayseri
PLACE OF DEATH
Kayseri
POSITION HELD
bishops in the Catholic Church
bishop
RELIGION
Christianity
Orthodox Church
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Macrina the Younger
Gregory of Nyssa
Peter of Sebaste
STUDENT OF
Gregory
Eustathius of Sebaste
Macrina the Elder
TIME PERIOD
Later Roman Empire
WRITING LANGUAGE
Ancient Greek
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Basil, St. Basil, Basil of Caesarea, Basil the Great, St. Basil the Great
Wikipedia
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Basil of Caesarea
Wikidata
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Basil of Caesarea
Wikipedia Redirections
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Basil, Saint, Basil, Saint Bishop of Caesarea, Basil of caesarea, Basil of Cappadocia, Basil of Cesareea, Basil the Great, Saint Basil, Saint Basil's day, Saint Basil of Caesarea, Saint Basil the Great, St. Basil, St. Basil of Caesarea, St. Basil the Great, St Basil, St Basil the Great, Άγιος Βασίλειος ο Μέγας
Wikidata Alias
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Basilius Magnus, Saint Basil the Great

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