Macrina the Elder

Not to be confused with Melania 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.[1]

  1. ^ Attwater, Donald; John, Catherine (1995), "Macrina the Elder", The Penguin Dictionary of saints, London: Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-051312-7, retrieved 2013-01-26