By St. Gregory of Nyssa, his brother. Richard McCambly translation, with introduction and notes.

Biographical profile. With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.

Short biographical entry in the Columbia Encyclopedia.

Biographical article on the Bishop of Caesarea, who is one of the Cappadocian Fathers, Doctor of the Church, and brother of St. Gregory of Nyssa.

Biography.

Biographical portrait.

By St. Gregory of Nazianzus (the Theologian). Browne-Swallow translation of Oration 43, with brief introduction and notes. From the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, second series, vol. 7.

Includes life, links to other sites about the saint, and hymns for Basil and the Three Holy Hierarchs.

Illustrated profile of the Father of Eastern Monasticism.

Short biography, by Basil Arrick.

Three accounts of his life: for children ages 0-8, children 8-14, and age 14-adult. By Catherine Fournier.

Fairly lengthy hagiography, from a Russian Orthodox handbook of saints' lives.

Icon of St. Basil the Great, with explanation.

Prolegomena, by Blomfield Jackson, from A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, second series, vol. 8. Lengthy (223K) introduction to the life and writings of Basil the Great.

The story of these two friends, suited to children.

Short biography.

Brief hagiography.

Biography, courtesy of St. George Coptic Orthodox Church.

From Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.

Research paper by a Dominican brother.

Biographical sketch, by Theresa A. Winters.

A four-part life of Basil, using excerpts from his works, by James Hanrahan, C.S.B.