St. Basil the Elder

St. Basil the Elder was the son of St. Macrina the Elder, and husband of St. Emilia. He and his wife had ten children, of whom five are numbered as saints: St. Macrina the Younger, St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Peter of Sebaste, and St. Theosebia the Deaconess.

St. Basil died not long after the birth of the last of the children, sometime between 341-345.

St. Gregory the Theologian called the marriage of St. Basil and St. Emilia a "union of souls and bodies", and said of St. Basil that he would have held the primacy in virtue, had not his son (St. Basil the Great) taken the title from him.