Monastic Martyr Macarius of Saint Anne Skete

Sources and Uncertainty

The principal sources record little more than Macarius's name, rank, and feast. The OCA synaxarion lists him on October 6 as "Monastic Martyr Macarius of Saint Anne Skete, Mount Athos" with the note that no information is available. OrthodoxWiki's October 6 calendar names him as "New-Martyr Macarius the monk of St. Anne's Skete on Mount Athos."

The OrthodoxWiki entry for the day also carries the notation "at Kion in Bithynia" — possibly indicating a place of martyrdom (Kion, or Cius, an ancient city on the Sea of Marmara in Bithynia, near modern Gemlik, Turkey) — but the page does not explicitly attribute this location to Macarius rather than to another commemoration on the same date, so it cannot be stated with confidence.

The Skete of Saint Anne

The Skete of Saint Anne, with which Macarius is associated, is a dependency of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos in Greece, set on the Aegean shore. Its central kyriakon church was built in 1680 under Patriarch Dionysius III of Constantinople. The skete is organized as an idiorrhythmic, hermitage-style settlement. Surviving records of the skete's notable residents do not mention Macarius by name.