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Rule of St Basil
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Basilian monks
Basilian monks
are
monks
who follow the "Rule" of
Saint
Basil the Great
,
bishop of Caesarea
(330-379). The monastic rules and institutes of St. Basil are important because their reconstruction of
monastic life
remains the basis for most
Eastern Orthodox
and some
Greek Catholic
monasticism.
Saint Benedict of Nursia
, who fulfilled much the same function in the West, took his
Regula Benedicti
from the writings of St. Basil and other earlier
church fathers
. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, monks do not generally call themselves "Basilians", while the Greek Catholics do. Thus the expression "Basilian monk" almost always refers to
religious
of those
Eastern Catholic Churches
which follow the
Byzantine Rite
.
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