Basil the Great, "the Great" (in greek: Βασίλειος ο Μέγας, Kayseri, 329 - Kayseri , January 1, 379), was a bishop greek, revered as a saint by the Church, whose bishop was well as confessor and Doctor of the Church and the first of the Cappadocian Fathers. Basil holds a place of great importance in the history of Christian worship, lived at the end of the era of persecution, the rites of the Church that were entrusted to the memory and impromptu began, the liturgy began to be influenced by short ritual. Basil's influence in these rituals is well attested in the sources. Some doubts remain about which parts of the Divine Liturgy were written by himself and which were simply assigned, saw the seventeen hundred years that separate us from him.
Many of today's liturgy of the Christian churches which bear the name of Basil are not entirely the result of his work in its present form, but retain a reference to the activity of Basil, who formulated the original formulas and liturgical chant the hymns. Patristic scholars recognize that the current liturgy of Basil 'door unmistakable traces of his pen in his mind and his heart
Desulo Even on the first Sunday of September is celebrated St. Basil, the patron of the borough of Ovolaccio.
During the celebration of the sacred, are invested in the new "Prioress" who take the place of those retiring for a year, have held the priory sparingly performing all their tasks. At the end of the celebration, holy, holy, preceded by groups of prioress, is carried in procession through the streets of the old district of Ovolaccio, until his return to the Church of Caramel.
