St. Basil, went on the Pope, built "several hospices for the needy, almost a mercy town, whose name derived from him: ‘Basiliad’". And Basiliad was "the origin of the modern institutions hospitalizing and curing patients". Basil was also "a wise ‘liturgical reformer’". "Therefore, we see added Benedict XVI, speaking off the cuff how liturgy and adoration, being in prayer within the Church and charity depend on each other", mutually. In his activity, he opposed the heretics: St. Basil, pointed out the Holy Father, "was thus one of the great Fathers" who speculated on "Trinity, one God in three People", underlining "the deepest existing unity". Moreover, Basil "committed himself also to eliminating divisions within the Church". As a matter of fact, said the Pope, "Basil abandoned himself to the faithful service of the Church in a total way", giving "us, and above all, the heralds of the Word, yesterday in the same way as today, a programme which he himself took care to carry out with great generosity". St. Basil, concluded Benedict XVI, "lived by always focussing on Christ", full of "love for the neighbour, of hope and faith". With his example, "he shows us how to be really Christian".
