Macrina the Elder | |
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Born | c. AD 270 |
Died | c. AD 340 |
Venerated in | Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy Oriental Orthodoxy |
Feast | January 14 |
Patronage | Widows 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.[1]