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Gregory of Nyssa

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Gregory of Nys·sa  (ns), Saint a.d. 335?-394?.
Eastern theologian and church father who led the conservative faction during the Trinitarian controversy of the fourth century.


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Macrina was the elder sister of Saints Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa.
Don't we have any "church mothers"? by Cameron, Michael / U.S. Catholic
In De virginitate, Gregory of Nyssa (married at the time), acknowledges that the married person can face more obstacles/temptations in the purgation of desire; but he does not thereby dismiss or excuse the married person from the ascetic demands of embodying eschatological desire.
Sacramentally charged by Matthiesen, Michon M. / Commonweal
Gregory of Nyssa and the Tradition of the Fathers (1995);
St. Gregory of Nyssa by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
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