1. The famine in Cappadocia occured shortly before Basil the Great's accession to its bishopric throne, in 370. Cf. Χρήστου, Π., Ο Μέγας Βασίλειος. Βίος και πολιτεία, συγγράμματα, θεολογική σκέψις (Ανάλεκτα Βλατάδων 27, Θεσσαλονίκη 1978), pp. 62-63. 2. Basil the Great was eye-witness of this crisis, which influenced his philanthropic work, as indicated by Holman S.R., The Hungry are dying. Beggars and bishops in Roman Cappadocia (New York 2001). Cf. «Homilia dicta tempore famis et siccitatis», in Migne, J. P. (ed.), Patrologia cursus completus Series Greca, vol. 31 (Paris 1857-1866), col. 303-328.
3. Holman, S.R. , The Hungry are dying. Beggars and bishops in Roman Cappadocia (New York 2001), pp. 71, 78, 91. 4. Gregorios the Theologian, “Funebris oratio in laudem Basilii Magni Caesareae in Cappadocia episcopi”, in Migne, J. P. (ed.), Patrologia cursus completus Series Greca, vol. 36 (Paris 1857-1866), col. 493-606, esp. 541-545. (Or. XLIII 34-36).
5. Gregory of Nyssa, Vie de Saint Macrine, ed. Maraval P., (Sources Chretiennes 178, Paris 1971), ch. 12 p. 184, ch. 26 p. 232. 6. Sokrates Scholastikos, Εκκλησιαστική ιστορία, ed. Hansen, G. Ch. (GCS, Neue Folge 1, Berlin 1995), pp. 245-246. |