Two of the great Church Fathers were brothers from a family of saints

Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa — two of the three Cappadocian Fathers whose writing shaped the doctrine of the Trinity — were biological brothers in a single 4th-century household. Their older sister Macrina the Younger and another brother, Peter of Sebaste, are also venerated as saints, and their parents and grandmother are honored too. One family produced a remarkable cluster of the early Church's saints.

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