Feast of St. Basil the Great, January 2

 

St. Basil is a Doctor of the Church. He was born around 330AD in Cappadochia (Turkey) to St. Basil and St. Emmelia. No pressure to be behave there, huh? St. Basil went on to found a monastery (he wrote the rules) and defended the Church against Arianism. St. Basil is also the patron saint of hospital administrators. He was an all-around force in the early Church. His dad became known as St. Basil the Elder. Bummer for him.

Pictured is St. Basil's cathedral in Moscow, one of the most famous church's in the world. I've been there and it's really, really small inside - probably because the walls are a couple feet thick.