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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forBasiliansA monastic order founded by St. Basil (d. 379), Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. His mother Emelia and his sister Macrina had already founded monasteries in a desert region of Pontus when Basil, on his return from a visit to monasteries in Egypt. Palestine and Mesopotamia, established a monastic order of his own. Of his two rules, the Great and the Little. the Great comprised fifty-five articles. the Little three hundred and thirteen. These monastic rules now prevail in the Greek Church. St. Benedict himself seems to have taken hints from them. The Basilians have flourished in Southern Italy, Spain, Russia, Austrian Poland and Hungary. There is now a Basilian establishment at Plymouth, the College of St. Mary Immaculate. In Austrian Poland and Hungary these monks are called Ruthenians. See Oath. Dict. citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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