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Basilian
Basilian may refer to a number of groups who are followers of Saint Basil the Great and specifically to:
- Basilian monks (founded c. 356), monks who follow the rule of Saint Basil the Great, in modern use, generally refers to monks of Eastern Catholic Churches
- Order of Saint Basil the Great or Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (founded c. 1631), a Ukrainian Greek Catholic monastic order
- Basilian Salvatorian Order (founded 1683), a religious order of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist (founded 1696), a religious order of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Basilian Alepian Order (founded 1697), a religious order of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Basilian Chouerite Sisters (founded 1737), a religious order of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Basilian Alepian Sisters (founded 1740), a religious order of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Congregation of St. Basil (founded 1822), a Roman Catholic order of priests now active in the Americas
Usage examples of "basilian".
From one of the Basilian monasteries came the sound of chanting, and along the walls of the city the night Guard was changed.
After the death of the younger Romanus, the fourth in lineal descent of the Basilian race, his widow Theophania successively married Nicephorus Phocas and his assassin John Zimisces, the two heroes of the age.
The successors of Theophilus, of the Basilian and Comnenian dynasties, were not less ambitious of leaving some memorial of their residence.