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Synaxis of the Three Holy Hierarchs: St Basil the Great, St Gregory the Theologian, and St John Chrysostom This feast was instituted during the reign of Alexis I
Comnenus (1081 1118). A dispute arose in Constantinople among various prominent
citizens and clergy, about which of the three Fathers Basil the Great, Gregory the
Theologian, or St John Chrysostom was the greatest. In typically Byzantine fashion,
the people of the City joined into the dispute, which became more animated, dividing
the populace into three hostile factions styling themselves Basilians, Gregorians and
Joannites. At last, desiring to restore peace to the City and the Church, the three holy
hierarchs themselves appeared to the monk John Mauropus; they revealed to him that
they stand together in harmony and in equal glory before the heavenly throne, and
instructed him to compose a common service for the three of them. Saint John
(Mauropus) obeyed, and chose January 30 as the date of the commemoration, since each
of the three hierarchs is commemorated separately in January.
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