Saint Macrina the Elder (before 270 – c. 340), saint and mother and grandmother of several saints, patron saint of widows
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Saint Macrina the Younger, (324 – 379), daughter of Saint Basil the Elder and granddaughter of the above
Gregory of Nyssa composed a "Dialogue on the Soul and Resurrection" (peri psyches kai anastaseos), entitled ta Makrinia (P.G. XLVI, 12 sq.), to commemorate Macrina, in which Gregory purports to describe the conversation he had with Macrina on her deathbed, in a literary form modelled on Plato's Phaedo.
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Universalists, including Hosea Ballou and J. W. Hanson, claim Macrina as a Universalist in her teachings, citing works which they believe demonstrate Macrina's belief that the wicked would all eventually confess Christ.