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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Kirsch, Johann Peter (1907). "Basil of Amasea". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia . Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company. pp. 329–330.