Basil the Great
Feast · hierarch
- 2 January (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1 January (Eastern Orthodox Church)
The East keeps him on 1 January, the day of his death, together with the Circumcision; Rome moved him to 2 January in 1969 to be kept with Gregory the Theologian.
After New Advent (Fathers and Catholic Encyclopedia).
Commemorating
- Basil of Caesarea commemorates
Where this is recorded
- Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 1 January, «И҆ па́мѧть и҆́же во ст҃ы́хъ ѻ҆тца̀ на́шегѡ васі́лїа вели́кагѡ, а҆рхїепⷭ҇кпа кеса́рїи каппадокі́йскїѧ», p. 363