BASIL

371: BASIL MAKES VISITATION TOUR. BASIL THREATENED BY ARIAN BISHOPS AND BY MODESTUS. Valens, traveling slowly from Nicomedia to Cæsarea, arrives at the end of the year.

372: Valens attends great service at Cæsarea on the Epiphany, Jan. 6. INTERVIEWS BETWEEN BASIL AND VALENS. Death of Galates. Valens endows a poorhouse Ptochotrophium: A house for the relief of the poor and quits Cæsarea. BASIL VISITS EUSEBIUS AT SAMOSATA. Claim of Anthimus to metropolitan dignity at Tyana. BASIL RESISTS ANTHIMUS. BASIL FORCES GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS TO BE CONSECRATED BISHOP OF SASIMA, AND CONSECRATES HIS BROTHER GREGORY TO NYSSA. CONSEQUENT ESTRANGEMENT OF BASIL AND GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS. BASIL IN ARMENIA. Creed signed by Eustathius.

373: St. Epiphanius writes the "Ancoratus." Death of Athanasius. BASIL VISITED BY JOVINUS OF PERRHA AND BY SANCTISSIMUS OF ANTIOCH.

374: Death of Auxentius and consecration of Ambrose at Milan. BASIL WRITES THE "DE SPIRITU SANCTO." Eusebius of Samosata banished to Thrace. Death of Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus, the elder.

375: Death of Valentinian. Gratian and Valentinian II emperors. Synod of Illyria, and Letter to the Orientals. Semiarian Council of Cyzicus. Demosthenes harasses the Catholics. Gregory of Nyssa deposed.

376: Synod of Iconium. OPEN DENUNCIATION OF EUSTATHIUS BY BASIL.

378: Death of Valens, Aug. 9. Eusebius of Samosata and Meletius return from exile.

379: DEATH OF BASIL, JAN. 1. Theodosius Augustus.