You're listening to the SSPX podcast. We're happy to present another installment of true heroes.

Stories of the Lives of the Saints, delivered by Father Thomas Tam. Father is also put together a video of each of these episodes. You can see the video at SSPX Podcast.com. Now here's Father Tam.

I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three,

nor can I discern the three without being straight away carried back to the one.

St. Gregory Nazienzin.

Hello, my friends, and welcome to true heroes.

Today we are going to consider the life of St. Gregory Nazienzin, whose life was

dedicated to deepening his own knowledge of the faith and then spreading it to the rest of the world.

Let us begin his story. The name Gregory comes from the Latin word Gregorius, which in turn came from the Greek Gregorios,

meaning watchful and alert.

St. Gregory was born in Capodotia in the town of Nazianzum.

I have no idea if I'm pronouncing that right. I'm trying. I really am.

He went to Athens in Greece and completed a course of studies in the

sacred scriptures with his friend St. Basil the Great. They both then retired to a monastery where they

continued to study the scriptures for a few years and later because, because of their virtue and knowledge, were sent

to preach the gospel. St. Gregory was made a bishop of his hometown, and then sent to be

Bishop of Constantinople, which at that time was infected by a variety of heresies, but especially

the Aryan heresy. He won the whole city over to the Catholic faith, with the exception of a few.

This, of course, greatly upset those few heretics left in the city, who attempted to overthrow

him by calumny, ridicule, and finally threats.

They even sent one of their own to assassinate him.

The young man who accepted the mission, is said accepted it with great joy to know that he was going to kill this Orthodox bishop.

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