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3 unusual facts about Macarius


Justin Popović

For his course on the Lives of the Saints, Justin began to translate into Serbian the Lives of the Saints from the Greek, Syriac and Slavonic sources, as well as numerous minor works of the Fathers-homilies of John Chrysostom, Macarius, and Isaac the Syrian.

Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow

His parents names (at least his mother's monastic names) are known because he dedicates the Great Menaion Reader to them.

Traducianism

Thus, writing to St. Jerome, St. Augustine said, "If that opinion of the creation of new souls is not opposed to this established article of faith let it be also mine; if it is, let it not be thine." Theodorus Abucara, Macarius, and Gregory of Nyssa also favored this view.


Macarius Magnes

This work agrees in its dogmatics with Gregory of Nyssa, and is valuable on account of the numerous excerpts from the writings of the opponent of Macarius.

He may be the Macarius, bishop of Magnesia, who, at the Synod of the Oak in 403, brought charges against Heraclides, bishop of Ephesus, the friend of John Chrysostom, although Adolf Harnack dated him in the late third century.

Macarius of Egypt

Pope Michael V of Alexandria brought the relics of Saint Macarius back to the Nitrian Desert on 19 Mesori.

Saint Macarius

Macarius of Alexandria (d. 395), Egyptian ascetic, known as "Macarius the Younger"

Macarius of Egypt, also known as "Macarius the Great" or "Macarius the Elder" 4th-century Egyptian monk


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