SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 20th of July WELCOME! SAINT MACRINA, MARTYR OF ROME A companion of  Saint Passeria , Saint Macrina  was killed for the Christian faith in Rome. (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Macrina may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,  de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 19th of July WELCOME! SAINT MACRINA THE YOUNGER, VIRGIN  She was the eldest of all the ten children of St Basil the elder, and St Emmelia; and being trained up in excellent sentiments of piety, after the death of her father, consecrated her virginity by vow to God, and was a great assistant to her mother in educating her younger brothers and sisters.  St Basil the Great, St Peter of Sebaste, St Gregory of Nyssa, and the rest, learned from her their early contempt of the world, dread of its dangers, and application to prayer and the word of God.  CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD, DREAD OF ITS DANGERS When they were sent abroad for their improvement, Macrina induced her mother to concur with her in founding two monasteries, one for men, the other for women, at a little distance from each other, on their own estate, near Ibora in Pontus.  That of men was first governed by St Basil, afterwards by St Peter. Macrina drew u...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 14th of January WELCOME! SAINT MACRINA THE ELDER, CONFESSOR Our knowledge of the life of the elder Macrina is derived mainly from the testimony of the great Cappadocian Fathers of the Church, her grandchildren: Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, and the panegyric of St Gregory of Nazianzus on St Basil. THE MOTHER OF THE ELDER BASIL She was the mother of the elder Basil, the father of Basil, Gregory, and other children whose names are known to us, including Macrina the Younger . Her home was at Neocaesarea in Pontus.  In her childhood she was acquainted with St Gregory Thaumaturgus , first bishop of her native town. As this venerable doctor, who had won Neocaesarea almost completely for Christianity, died between 270 and 275, St Macrina must have been born before 270.  A CONFESSOR OF FAITH During the Diocletian persecution she fled from her native town with her husband, of whose name we are ignorant, and had to endure many ...