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BASILIE (saint). Basil, A.D. 329-379, was born in Pontic. He became Bishop of Caesarea in 370 and died there (NCE II: 143-146).
The Parson quotes from Basil's Homiliae in Psalmos, Psalms 23.7 (PG 29: 298), ParsT 220-225.
The form of the name is the French variant.
Jacobus de Voragine, GL, trans. G. Ryan and H. Ripperger, 308-313; ibid., LA, ed. Th. Graesse, 121-126.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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