Macrina the Elder

Saint

Macrina the Elder
Bornc. AD 270
Diedc. AD 340
Venerated inRoman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy
FeastJanuary 14
PatronageWidows
Invoked against poverty

Macrina the Elder (Greek: Μακρίνα; before AD 270 – c. 340) was the mother of Basil the Elder, and the grandmother of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Macrina the Younger.

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