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Venerable (Monastic) · 4th century

Venerable Macrina Sister of Saint Basil the Great

Also known as Macrina the Younger

The eldest of the holy children of a Cappadocian family that gave the Church St Basil the Great and St Gregory of Nyssa, who turned her mother's house into a convent and was the teacher and guide of her brothers in the way of perfection.

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Notes

Granddaughter of St Macrina the Elder.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints