✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: July 19

St. Macrina the Younger

Virgin · c. 330–379

Patron of —

The eldest of ten children in a family of saints, who turned the family estate into a monastic community and formed the faith and minds of her brothers, Basil and Gregory of Nyssa.

She shaped two of the greatest Fathers of the Church — her own brothers — and Gregory wrote a whole book recording her wise, serene death.

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