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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 25th of February WELCOME! SAINT CAESARIUS OF NAZIANZUS Saint Caesarius of Nazianzus , physician, was the younger and only brother of  Saint Gregory of Nazianzus , born probably c. 330 at Arianzus, near Nazianzus; died at the end of 368 or the beginning of 369.  He received a careful training from his saintly mother Nonna and his father Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus. He studied probably at Caesarea in Cappadocia, and then at the celebrated schools of Alexandria. Here his favourite studies were geometry, astronomy, and especially medicine. In the last-named science he surpassed all his fellow students. About 355 he came to Constantinople, and had already acquired a great reputation for his medical skill, when his brother Gregory, homeward bound from Athens, appeared there about 358. Caesarius sacrificed a remunerative and honourable post and returned to his parents with Gregory. The capital, however, soon pr...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 25th of February WELCOME! SAINT CAESARIUS OF NAZIANZUS, CONFESSOR  Saint Caesarius  was a physician, and brother to  Saint Gregory of Nazianzus . When the latter repaired to Caesarea, in Palestine, where the sacred studies flourished, Caesarius went to Alexandria, and with incredible success ran through the circle of the sciences, amongst which oratory, philosophy, and especially medicine, fixed his attention. In this last he became the first man of his age.  AN OUTSTANDING DOCTOR He perfected himself in this profession at Constantinople, but excused himself from settling there, as the city and the emperor Constantius earnestly requested him to do.  He was afterwards recalled thither, singularly honoured by Julian the Apostate, nominated his first physician, and excepted in several edicts which that prince published against the Christians.  ST JULIAN THE APOSTATE'S FIRST PHYSICIAN He r...