Saint Macrina the Elder

Memorial

• 14 January

Profile

Grandmother of Saint Basil the Great, Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Saint Peter of Sebaste, and Saint Macrina the Younger, and apparently raised Basil. Spiritual student of Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus. She and her husband lived in hiding in a forest at Pontus for seven years during the persecutions of Diocletian, nearly starving several times. Widowed.

Died

• c.340

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against poverty
• poor people
• widows

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Macrina the Elder”. Saints.SQPN.com. 13 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-macrina-the-elder/>