Saint Gregory of Nazianzus: Three Poems: Concerning His Own Affairs, Concerning Himself and the Bishops, Concerning His Own Life (Biblia.com)

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Raised in a multi-generational Christian family, Gregory of Nazianzus was also well-educated, well-traveled, and tutored in almost every discipline of the Greek arts, philosophies, sciences, and literatures. Among his studies must have included Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius of Rhodes, Thucydides, Plutarch, Herodotus, Lucian, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle—the list goes on. The numerous poems written by...

spark of life-giving breath remained. There were souls perfect in the word of faith, a tiny group indeed, but larger in the sight of God. [590] He does not reckon numbers but hearts, and these were a faithful growth, a branch deserving honor. As God would have it, (for people thought me prominent in career and eloquence, though I had always lived a provincial life) at the instance of many pastors and their flocks, [595] the grace of the Spirit sent me to these as helper for the people and support

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