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4 unusual facts about Macrina the Younger


Macrina

Saint Macrina the Younger, (324 – 379), daughter of Saint Basil the Elder and granddaughter of the above

Macrina the Younger

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.

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.

Gregory presents her as one who consciously rejected all Classical education, choosing instead devoted study of Scripture and other sacred writings.



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