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	St. Macrina the Younger
		She was the eldest child of Basil and Elder Emmelia, the granddaugher of St. Macrina the Elder, and the sister of the Cappadocian Fathers, Sts.
		Soon afterwards, however, her affianced husband died suddenly, and Macrina resolved to devote herself to a life of perpetual virginity and the pursuit of Christian perfection.
		On his return from a synod of Antioch, towards the end of 379, Gregory of Nyssa visited his deeply venerated sister, and found her grievously ill. In pious discourse the brother and sister spoke of the life beyond and of the meeting in heaven.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/macrina_younger,saint.html (381 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Macrina the Younger
		Macrina the Elder, and the sister of the Cappadocian Fathers, Sts.
		After the death her mother Emmelia, Macrina became the head of this community, in which the fruit of the earnest christian
		In this, Macrina appears as teacher, and treats of the soul, death, the resurrection, and the restoration of all things.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09508c.htm (379 words)

	Macrina the Younger
		Macrina, her father and mother, her grandmother Macrina, and three of her brothers were all canonized as saints in the ancient church.
		Macrina was born A.D. By her intellectual ability, force of character, and earnest piety she became the real head of the family, and largely shaped the lives of her distinguished brothers.
		The fact that Macrina and her brothers, high functionaries in the church, express Universalism, not argumentatively or disputingly, but as a matter uncontested, should persuade us that it was the unchallenged sentiment of the time.
	www.tentmaker.org /biographies/macrina.htm (1252 words)

	Macrina the Younger
		Macrina the Elder lived in the days of the Emperor Diocletian, who made a determined effort to destroy the Christian faith.
		She was betrothed at the age of twelve, after the custom of the day, but when her fiance died, she determined to devote her life to prayer and contemplation and to works of charity.After the death of her father, she and her mother formed a community of women who shared her goals.
		After the death of their parents, Macrina was chiefly responsible for the upbringing of her ten younger brothers.
	satucket.com /lectionary/Macrina.htm (345 words)

	Macrina
		Macrina, daughter of Basil, was twelve years old when her parents made arrangements to have her marry an aspiring young lawyer who was a relative of the family.
		Although the historian González does not describe the details of Macrina’s lifestyle, we might well conclude, by how she would influence others, that it was a life marked by a denial of the extravagances of life, and a deep commitment to prayer and study.
		Macrina centered Basil’s faith on “the joys of religious life5.” True joy, she taught, came from abdicating worldly pleasures, assuming simple garb and food, and seeking God through a prayerful lifestyle.
	www.shol.com /featheredprop/theo8.htm (1377 words)

	Saint Macrina, The “Teacher” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Thereby Macrina became familiar from an early age with the inspiring psalms of King David, and the wise teachings of Solomon and Sirach.
		Macrina nevertheless considered the betrothal to be binding, and resolved not to marry another.
		He came home after many years of study abroad with his head swelled by the pride of learning, and it was Macrina who, by her wisdom, delivered him from spiritual peril and brought him to such humility that he forsook all and entered the monastic life.
	www.roca.org /OA/141/141g.htm (1620 words)

	St. Macrina the Younger (c. 330-79) Feast: West August 12 East July 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Macrina was the eldest of the ten children of St Basil the Elder and St Emmelia.
		When her mother died, about the year 373, Macrina gave away all her possessions and lived on what she could earn by her own labours; when she died in 379 she was so poor that nothing could be found to cover her body but a coarse veil.
		This account of Macrina is based on the Life written by her brother Gregory in the form of a letter to a solitary named Olympius.
	www.reu.org /public/saints/macrina.htm (346 words)

	St. Macrina the Younger
		Basil and Emmelia begot ten children, of whom Macrina the Younger was the eldest.
		When Macrina was twelve, her parents betrothed her to a promising young man. Unexpectedly, the fiance died before the marriage could be solemnized.
		In a panegyric on her he mentions two miracles: one in which St. Emmelia cured a growth that Macrina was suffering, by a simple sign of the cross; one in which Macrina herself healed the eye disease of a little girl.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id405.htm (670 words)

	A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Macrina (2), the Younger, the eldest child of her parents Basil and Emmelia, by her position in the family and still more by her force of character, high intellectual gifts, and earnest piety, proved the well-spring of good to the whole household, and so contributed largely to form the characters of her brothers.
		Macrina committed to memory the moral and ethical portion of the books of Solomon and the whole of the Psalter.
		With great self-command Macrina, ἡ μεγάλη, as he delights to call her, restrained her groans, checked her asthmatic pantings, and putting on a cheerful countenance endeavoured to divert him from the present sorrow.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.Macrina_2.html (1051 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		We don't know the exact date of Macrina's birth but she was the first born of Basil and Emmelia of Neocaesarea, in Cappadocia, Greece.
		Macrina was also the granddaughter of another holy woman, Macrina the Elder.
		Macrina became the superior of one of the earliest known women's ascetical monastic communities.
	www.christdesert.org /public_graphics/martyrology/names/m/macrina_the_younger.txt (314 words)

	Macrina the Younger
		Macrina the Elder lived in the days of the Emperor Diocletian, who made a determined effort to destroy the Christian faith.
		She was betrothed at the age of twelve, after the custom of the day, but when her fiance died, she determined to devote her life to prayer and contemplation and to works of charity.After the death of her father, she and her mother formed a community of women who shared her goals.
		After the death of their parents, Macrina was chiefly responsible for the upbringing of her ten younger brothers.
	www.satucket.com /lectionary/Macrina.htm (345 words)

	Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Macrina the Younger The granddaughter of St. Macrina the Elder and the sister of St. Gregory of Nyssa.
		Biography: Macrina the Younger, monastic and teacher (19 Jul 379) St. Macrina the Younger, monastic and teacher.
		Pliny the Younger Collection at Bartleby.com Short biography of the orator and statesman, as well as text of the 1909 Collier translation of his letters and a selection of quotations.
	www.anti-aging-1.com /go/younger (991 words)

	Saints of July 19
		Macrina was well educated by her mother, who used the Biblical Books of Wisdom for reading practice, rather than the then popular classical poems.
		Macrina led the group from the time of her mother's death until her own.
		Macrina was laid in the same vault as her mother.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0719.htm (2231 words)

	Emily - OrthodoxWiki
		She was the daughter of a martyr and the daughter-in-law of Macrina the Elder.
		As a result of her zealous yet maternal instruction of her children, five of them are commemorated as saints on the calendar of the Church: Saints Macrina, Basil, Peter of Sebaste, Gregory of Nyssa, and Theosebia, a deaconess.
		Macrina reminded her that it is not befitting to a Christian to “mourn as those who have no hope” and inspired her to hope courageously in the resurrection vouchsafed to us by the Pascha of the Lord.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Emily (578 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Basil (the Elder) and Emiliana (Emelia), Macrina was born c.
		After the deaths of her father and brother, Naucraticos, Macrina comforted her mother, and after the deaths of her mother and brother, Basil, Macrina, already dying, comforted Gregory, who recorded their conversation in On the Soul and Resurrection.
		When Macrina died in 379, Gregory prepared her body for burial next to their mother; he later wrote the Life of Macrina as a tribute to his teacher and to her influence on the family.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/macrina.html (204 words)

	January 14: Macrina honored for persuasive faith
		During one of these persecutions, Macrina and her husband were forced to flee into a nearby forest to escape from imperial soldiers.
		Macrina was later named a saint by the church and her feast is on this day, January 14.
		Macrina the younger became a great student of the Bible.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/01/daily-01-14-2002.shtml (611 words)

	The Confessing Reader
		She is sometimes known as Macrina the Younger to distinguish her from her paternal grandmother, Macrina the Elder.
		The chief source for knowledge of Macrina’s life is Gregory’s Life of Macrina the Younger, which preserves a vivid account of their meeting at her deathbed.
		Macrina’s competence as a theologian is attested by Gregory’s On the Soul and Resurrection.
	reader.classicalanglican.net (8437 words)

	About St. Macrina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Macrina in turn became the teacher of her younger brothers Basil, later bishop of Neocaesarea, and Gregory, later bishop of Nyssa, who themselves became two of the greatest teachers in the Universal Church.
		An English translation of the charming Life of Macrina by her younger brother St. Gregory of Nyssa, in the form of a letter to a mutual friend, is available online.
		Macrina is plainly the person titled The Teacher in this dialogue, which Gregory also gives the circumstances of in the Life, but many scholars have tried to deny this, on the assumption that no woman could be such a theologian.
	www.midiowa.com /ssephmac/Macrina.htm (432 words)

	Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, WA
		St Macrina (c.327-79 AD) was the oldest of ten children of St Basil the Elder and St Emmelia, and was born at Caesarea in Cappadocia.
		St Basil the Great then established his mother and St Macrina on an estate by the river Iris in Pontus, and there they were joined by other women in an ascetic communal life.
		After the death of St Emmelia, St Macrina disposed of all her property in favour of the poor, and lived on what she earned by the labour of her hands.
	home.iprimus.com.au /xenos/macrina.html (369 words)

	Confraternity of Penitents Newsletter Archives: January 2005
		Saint Macrina was the granddaughter of Saint Macrina the Elder and one of the ten children of Saints Basil and Emmelia.
		Macrina's youngest brother Peter was in a neighboring monastery while two other brothers Basil and Gregory, both of whom became bishops, often sought Macrina's advice.
		Macrina was admonishing her brother, who was also a bishop, that he failed to realize that the graces he experienced were the result of God's goodness called upon him by the prayers of pious parents.
	www.penitents.org /Newslet05Jan.html (4391 words)

	St. Pachomius Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Basil (the Elder) and Emiliana (Emelia), Macrina was born c.
		After the deaths of her father and brother, Naucraticos, Macrina comforted her mother, and after the deaths of her mother and brother, Basil, Macrina, already dying, comforted Gregory, who recorded their conversation in On the Soul and Resurrection.
		Gregory of Nyssa: Life of Macrina: Macrina was Gregory's sister and a major influence on his thought.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/XmacrinaCap.html (225 words)

	July 19 Saints of the Day
		Macrina the Younger was one of their children, sister of St.
		Granddaughter of Saint Macrina the Elder, and called the Younger to distinguish between the two.
		On the death of her father, she and her mother retired to the family estate in Pontus and lived a life of prayer and contemplation in a community they formed there.
	www.religion-cults.com /saints/july19.htm (290 words)

	St. Macrina the Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		She was the eldest child of Basil and Elder Emmelia, the granddaughter of St. Macrina the Elder, and the sister of the Cappadocian Fathers, Sts.
		On his return from a synod of Antioch, towards the end of 379, Gregory of Nyssa visited his deeply venerated sister, and found her grievously ill.
		In pious discourse the brother and sister spoke of the life beyond and of the meeting in heaven.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/090508C.htm (417 words)

	Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center Our Venerable Mother Macrina, Sister of Basil the Great
		Our Venerable Mother Macrina, Sister of Basil the Great was a spiritual guide for her ten younger brothers who included Our Father among the Saints Basil the Great, Our Father among the Saints Gregory of Nyssa and St. Peter of Sebaste.
		Following the customs of the time, Our Venerable Mother Macrina was was promised in marriage by her father to a young man from a noble family when she was twelve.
		Many aspects of Our Venerable Mother Macrina life can be found in the writings of her brothers, especially St. Peter of Sebaste and St. Gregory of Nyssa.
	www.mliles.com /melkite/mothermacrina.shtml (842 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Gregory of Nyssa: Life of Macrina
		The virgin's name was Macrina; she was so called by her parents after a famous Macrina some time before in the family' our father's mother' who had confessed Christ [962 A] like a good athlete in the time of the persecutions.
		Nevertheless Macrina took him in hand, and with such speed did she draw him also toward the mark of philosophy that he forsook the glories of this world and despised fame gained by speaking, and deserted it for this busy life where one toils with one's hands.
		But when it came to Macrina herself she kept nothing of the things assigned to her in the equal division between brothers and sisters, but all her share was given into the priest's hands according to the divine command.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/macrina.html (11991 words)

	Saint Macrina the Younger Society, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Ecole Glossary Biographical sketch of St. Macrina, by Karen Rae Keck.
		Gregory of Nyssa: Life of Macrina St. Gregory's tribute to his beloved sister, who was a great influence on him.
		For All the Saints Biographical portrait of St. Macrina the Younger.
	www.morrisarearedcross.org /bWFfMjMyNDEy.aspx (80 words)

	Macrina - TheBestLinks.com - Saint Macrina the Elder, Saint Macrina the Younger, Disambig, ...
		Macrina - TheBestLinks.com - Saint Macrina the Elder, Saint Macrina the Younger, Disambig,...
		Macrina, Saint Macrina the Elder, Saint Macrina the Younger, Disambig
		This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Macrina.html (112 words)

	St. Macrina the Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Saint Macrina the Younger was the granddaughter of Macrina the Elder and sister of Saint Basil, Saint Gregory of Nyssa, and Saint Peter of Sebastea.
		Where they lived a life of prayer and contemplation in a community they formed there.
		Macrina became head of the group when her mother died and lived in Pontus until her death.
	www.thesacredheart.com /sts/smacriy.htm (97 words)

	ScienceDaily -- Browse Topics: Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/People/Saints/M/Saint_Macrina_the_Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		For All the Saints - Biographical portrait of St. Macrina the Younger.
		Gregory of Nyssa: Life of Macrina - St. Gregory's tribute to his beloved sister, who was a great influence on him.
		The Ecole Glossary - Biographical sketch of St. Macrina, by Karen Rae Keck.
	www.sciencedaily.com /directory/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/People/Saints/M/Saint_Macrina_the_Younger (577 words)

	Article: St Gregory of Nyssa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		His grandmother, Macrina, who had survived the final persecution of Christians under the emperor Diocletian, is considered a saint.
		So too is his sister, Macrina the Younger, who founded a religious community.
		Basil was a natural role model for his younger brother, and he introduced him to another figure who would prove just as influential.
	www.wau.org /current/article.asp?id=2259 (1749 words)

	Before 1000
		Unknown- Catherine of Alexandria proclaimed her faith to the public before be tortured and martyred.
		328-380 Macrina the Younger sister of Gregory of Nyssa and Basil the Great was a prophetess and teacher who founded one of the first monastic communities.
		Marcella (325-410) was a reconized teacher, who participated n the correction of heretics.
	www.alabaster-jars.com /before1000.html (113 words)

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