Description: Basil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea. His reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries.
Brief description: Roy Joseph Deferrari (1890-1969) was Professor of Classics at the Catholic University of America.