ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 9th of March WELCOME! SAINT GREGORY OF NYSSA, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR [Also celebrated on January 10.] Saint Gregory of Nyssa was younger brother to St Basil the Great; and was educated in polite and sacred studies. HE RENOUNCED THE WORLD He afterwards renounced the world, and was ordained lector; but was overcome by his violent passion for eloquence to teach rhetoric. St Gregory Nazianzen wrote to him in the strongest terms, exhorting him to renounce that paltry or ignoble glory, as he elegantly calls it. BISHOP OF NYSSA This letter produced its desired effect. St Gregory returned to the sacred ministry in the lower functions of the altar: after some time he was called by his brother Basil to assist him in his pastoral duties, and in 372 was chosen bishop of Nyssa, a city of Cappadocia, near the Lesser Armenia. THE ARIANS TREMBLED AT HIS NAME The Arians, who trembled at his name, prevailed with Demosthenes, vicar o...