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Five of the nine siblings became saints on the Orthodox Church calendar, along with their two parents and their grandmother, Macrina the Elder.
Two of his brothers became bishops: Gregorio de Nisa and Pedro II de Sebaste, and his older sister, Macrina the Younger, was a model of ascetic life.
The basis of his education is placed by his father, Vasilie, professor of rhetoric at the Neocaesarea in Pontus, son of Saint Macrina the Elder and student of Saint Gregory the Wonderworker.
The young Basil studies brilliantly at Caesarea in Cappadocia, Constantinople and Athens, mastering all the best of pagan culture.
He returned to the country in 356 and became a teacher of rhetoric.
Then he left his teaching career and entered monasticism.
Dissatisfied with the form of monasticism proposed by the disciples of Bishop Eustace of Sevasta, he travels to learn about monasticism in Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Mesopotamia.
After spending several years with the disciples of Saint Pachomius the Great and the anchorites who lived according to the rules of Saint Anthony the Great, he drew up a plan for organizing monastic life, which he put into practice in Annesi, an area that belonged to his family.
Here comes Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (or theologian), who makes an important contribution to ascetic life.
Work is harmoniously intertwined with study and prayer.
Saint Basil and Saint Gregory lay the foundations of the Philokalia.
The rules of monastic life established at that time by Saint Basil remained in the Orthodox Church the founding of the monastic organization, shows Adrian Cocoșilă on the Orthodox Christian website.
Saint Basil the Great founded, in addition to the Church, asylums and hospitals, to help the poor and homeless, urging the rich to use their wealth, helping those in need.
Saint Basil the Great passed into the Eternals on January 1, 379.
However, Saint Basil did not despise the family and marriage, on the contrary, he said:
“God, who cares about our salvation, has divided the lives of men into two types of life, that is, the life of marriage and the life of virginity, so that he who cannot fight against the virgin, takes a legitimate wife (wife), knowing that she will be asked to promise moderation, holiness, and likeness to the saints who had wives and raised children. “
