St Gregory of Nyssa

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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St. Gregory of Nyssa is one of the fourth century Cappadocian Fathers. St. Gregory hails from a holy family of saint siblings, including St. Basil the Great and St. Macrina. Dr. Chris Mooney shares about the life and scholarly work of St. Gregory and how he continues to inspires us today!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.
0:05.5	This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:19.3	Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints.
0:21.3	My name is Mary McGeehan.
0:23.0	I'm joined by Dr. Chris Mooney.
0:25.3	Thank you for being here.
0:26.4	Thanks, Mary.
0:27.4	Welcome to this episode of Catholic Saints.
0:29.3	We're going to dive into the life of St. Gregory of Nissa, whose feast day is January 10th.
0:35.6	My first question is, where is Nissa? Am I pronouncing that right?
0:38.9	Yes, yes, Nissa, yeah. He's called either St. Gregory of Nissa or sometimes St. Gregory Nissen.
0:47.0	Nissen, okay. Yeah. But Nissa was in modern day Turkey. So Gregory of Nissa is known as one of the Cappadocians.
0:56.6	The three classic, these three classic saints and theologians called the Cappadocians,
1:02.7	Basil of Cesaria, that's where he was bishop, Gregory of Nissa, where he was bishop, and
1:09.6	Gregory of Nazianzus.
1:11.6	Referencing just the location of where they came from.
1:14.6	These three bishops who all knew one another very well.
1:16.6	They all lived in this area of Cappadocia,
1:20.6	at the same time period.
1:21.6	In the same time period.
1:22.6	In each other.
1:23.6	In fact, as I'll mention in a moment,
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