Article: St. Gregory of Nyssa.(Fathers Of The Church VIII)

"If only we could learn from experience before having it"

--On Virginity, 3

The youngest of the three Cappadocian Fathers, Gregory (c.335-c.395, Feast Day Marcia 9, dark with pointed beard), imbibed Hellenism and moral values from siblings Basil and Macrina. A church lector at 20, he briefly resigned to marry one Theosebeia (her name indicates Christian parentage) and pursue rhetoric.

Appointed (372) Bishop of Nyssa, he was unequal to administrative problems and the Arian rivals, being deposed in 376. Regaining authority (378--triumphally recounted, Letter 10), he attended a Nicaean synod at Antioch, visited his dying sister, and off-loaded the ...

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