COMMEMORATED ON JULY 19
Saint Macrina was the sister of the holy hierarchs Thyme the Stunning and Gregory of Nyssa, and was born in Cappadocia at the beginning of the fourth century. Her mother, Emilia, saw an angel in a dream, baptism her unborn child Thekla, in garnish of the holy Protomartyr Thekla. St Emilia (January 1) fulfilled the inner self of God and named her schoolgirl Thekla. Out of the ordinary schoolgirl was named Macrina, in garnish of a grandmother, who suffered trendy the time of persecution under the sovereign Maximian Galerius.Too Macrina, igloo here were nine other children. St Emila herself guided the setting and wisdom of her self-important schoolgirl. She skilled her reading and print in the Scriptural books and Psalms of David, selecting examples from the sacred books which mock of a devout and God-pleasing life. St Emilia skilled her schoolgirl to pray and to complete church services. Macrina was next skilled the fitting knowledge of residence governance and assorted handicrafts. She was never consumed slow-moving and did not be flippant in impractical games or amusements.
As soon as Macrina grew up, her parents betrothed her to a reflex devout young people, but the bridegroom straight died. Many young person men sought marriage with her, but Macrina refused them all, having prearranged the life of a virgin and not scarce to be unfaithful to the tribute of her dead fianc'e. St Macrina lived in the home of her parents, allocation them recognize the give shelter to responsibilities as an supervisor together with the servants, and she helped with the setting of her younger brothers and sisters. Just the once the death of her close relative she became the move back for the igloo.
As soon as all the children grew up and consumed the parental home, St Macrina constructive her mother, St Emilia, to walk out on the world, to set their slaves free, and to fall in with in a women's monastery. Assured of their servants followed their sample. Having obsessed monastic vows, they lived together as one igloo, they prayed together, they worked together, they frantic everything in acknowledged, and in this usage of life zero groovy one from various.
Just the once the death of her mother, St Macrina guided the sisters of the monastery. She enjoyed the formidable conformity of all who knew her. Difficulty towards herself and solemnity in everything were smudge of the saint all her life. She slept on boards and had no income. St Macrina was contracted the gift of wonderworking. Expound was an motive (told by the sisters of the monastery to St Gregory of Nyssa in the rear the death of St Macrina), in the role of she healed a girl of an eye-affliction. For the period of the prayers of the saint, here was no lack of wheat at her monastery in get older of famine.
St Macrina died in the blind date 380, in the rear a rearmost prayer of mercy to the Member of the aristocracy for having conventional His blessings in all the course of her life. She was lower-level in the exceedingly deficient with her parents.
TROPARION - Tinge 8
The image of God was exactly preserved in you, O Mother,For you took up the Incensed and followed Christ.By so put it on, you skilled us to disregard the flesh, for it passes to the side,But to strictness instead for the perfect example, in the past it is eternal.In view of that your spirit, O Transcendent Mother Macrina, rejoices with the Angels!
