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In the 360s, Basil of Caesarea was a bishop in what is now Turkey and there was a famine. Basil wanted to show the community that the church supported the common good. Together with his whole family, they spent their own money to buy up grain from those who could spare it and get it out to the starving poor and those without homes.1
[1] https://learn.elca.org/jle/patristic-christian-views-on-poverty-and-hunger/