Holy Macaria Biography

Memorial Day: January 19 on February 1, Rev. Makarii was born near G. in childhood and youth pass the herd, he mined and sold Selitra.

Then he began to lead a secluded life near the other village. According to St. John Cassian, Macarius "did not study the Aristotelian cunning." At the age of 30, he retired to the Skit desert. After 12 years, a sufficient number of followers gathered near him. To the city of John Cassian, who visited the monastery after the death of Makarii, there were 4 communities, and each had its own priest and its own church.

Apoftegms mention 2 visits by Makariy St. Anthony the Great is possible, on the advice of St. Anthony he adopted a priesthood at the age of 40. During the Arian persecution in the city of Makariy Alexandria and others. In Makarii, he visited Nitria for the last time. Nor contemporaries of St. Macarius, nor the subsequent eastern authors up to the Middle Ages, report nothing about the existence of his works.

The only ancient authors who mentions the written work of the Monk are the Western theologian Gennady Marseille. Gennady claims that Macarius wrote “only one unam tantum message”, known as “Epistle to the Chadam”. The essay "Spiritual Conversations" begins to be widely used in the East only after the victory of Isikhanov, in the circle of which they enjoyed the greatest authority, for example, St.

Gregory Palamas in the XIV century directly quotes them as the creation of St. Macaria the Great. Translations of these conversations were well known in Rus'. Their fragments were included by St. Feofan the Recluse into Russian translation of kindness. Prayer to the Monk Macarius the Great O, sacred to the head, reverend Father, the Avvo Makariy, do not forget your wretched Avvos to the end, but always remember us in your saints and favorable prayers to God.

Remember your herd, the heden yourself the Upas, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, the sacred Father, for your spiritual children, as if you have bold to the Heavenly Tsar, not premoli for us to the Lord, and do not despise us, by faith and love of honors. Remember us unworthy at the throne of Victories, and do not persuade us to pray for us to Christ God, for it is given to you who will be praying for us by pray.

We do not imagine the existence of the man who was dead, and if the body was naughty and if if they were alive, but also, he is alive. Do not retreat from us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of enemy and all the charms of demonic and the intrigues of the devil, our good shepherd. As well as your relics and the relics of our cancer before our ours, there is always visible, but your holy soul with angelic army, with irrelevant faces, with heavenly forces, at the throne of the Vyserzhitelv’s uprising, is worthily.

We are very wisely, we are truly alive, we are alive, we are praying to you and pray to you: pray for us by the omnipotent god, for the benefits of our souls, and ask us the time to repent, let us uncleaned from the earth to the sky, from the ordeals of the bitter, demons of the air princes and from the eternal flour, and we will get rid of the heavenly kingdom, and we will be with all the righteous, from all the righteous.

Himbales to our Lord Jesus Christ, he is appropriate for all glory, honor and worship, with His hopeless father and with the Blessed and Light and Life -Giving Spirit, now and ever and ever. The second prayer oh, reverend the father macarius! We pray, we, unworthy, ask your representation at the All -Military God of our God of spiritual and bodily, quiet and godly response and a good answer at the terrible judgment of Christ.

The arrows of the devil’s arrows are fucked up by your prayers, may the sinful malice will not come to us, may the temporary life be inherited, be inherited to inherit the kingdom of heaven and bought with you to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever. Literature about the author.