The Congregation of St. Basil, commonly known as the Basilian Fathers, is an order of Roman Catholicpriests. After the closing of Catholic seminaries in France in 1822, a clandestine school was founded in central France. After the relevant French laws were relaxed, the congregation was founded to ensure the continuation of the school, then operating in Annonay.
St Basil's influence, and the greater suitability of his institute to European ideas, ensured the propagation of Basilian monachism; and Sozomen says that in Cappadocia and the neighbouring provinces there were no hermits but only cenobites.
Basilian monachism spread from Greece to Italy and Russia.
Of much greater importance was the importation of Basilian monachism into Russia, for it thereby became the norm of monachism for all the Slavonic lands.
The priests of the BasilianFathers Missions are a small group, living and working among the poor of the countries we serve in our ongoing effort to assist them in their struggle for human dignity and self reliance.
The Congregation of St. Basil, commonly called the BasilianFathers, was officially founded in 1822 when ten diocesan priests at Annonay, France, vowed on November 21 to dedicate their lives to the education of youth and preaching the Word of God.
Basilians founded St. Basils College in Waco, Texas in 1899, St. Thomas High School in Houston, Texas in 1900, St. Marys Seminary in Laporte, Texas in 1901, and many parishes in Texas from Navasota to Matagorda, in which the Basilian presence has left a lasting impression and spirit of evangelization.
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