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...