The life of St Gregory the Elder of Nazianzus
Coming from a family of real means, as Nonna's own family did, he used his wealth to help build a church in Cappadocia, and around 329 was ordained Bishop of Nazianzus, an office he would hold for the rest of his long life.
Three children were born to Gregory and Nonna, and the Church came to venerate all three as saints: a daughter, Gorgonia; a younger son, Caesarius, who became a court physician under two emperors; and an elder son the world would come to know simply as Gregory the Theologian. The father lived to see much of that son's own rise before his own death.
He died early in 374, remembered less for any writings of his own than for a household that, under his and Nonna's shared example, produced some of the fourth century Church's most enduring voices.
