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"Gregory the Great and his words where you put it? Why not with the apostles and prophets? He was a man who walked in their own spirit and life followed in the footsteps of saints and throughout its existence remained with his conduct by the linearity of the Gospel. I say that would be unfair to the truth if you do not count among the family of God that this soul was like a huge torch that spreads its flaming glory in the church of God He had great power over demons, for the assistance of the Spirit, but also had such a grace in speaking to lead the nations to the obedience of faith, which, having found only seventeen Christians, led to God through knowledge of all the people of the city and countryside.
He diverted the course of mighty rivers commanding them in the name of Christ, a pond that had dried up because of strife between brothers greedy. His predictions of future events were not likely to be less than nothing in the great prophets. In short, it would be long to explain in detail the miracles of this man who, for the abundance of the gifts of grace working in him by the Spirit in every action powerful, signs and wonders, was called "second Moses" by the enemies of the same Church.
So in every word, every act done under the influence of grace shone like a light, a sign of heavenly power that accompanied him invisibly. Still has great admiration for him in the inhabitants of the country, and his memory is always new and fresh is rooted in the churches, nor the weather can be removed "(Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit , 74, in Elena Cavalcanti The experience of God in the Greek Fathers , Edizioni Studium, Roma 1984, pp. 213-214..)
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