Jan 15 - “St. Macarius the Great” © icon by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM. Happy Feast Day St. Macarius!
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St. Macarius is one of the founding fathers of Christian monasticism. St. Anthony the Great knew him and praised his wisdom. When followers gathered around his hermitage in Scetis, he first built a church in which they could pray. Eventually a monastery grew up around the church and the scattered hermitages. To his followers he was the "aged youth," for though he was only thirty when he settled in Scetis, he had the depth and wisdom of a person much older. Arians exiled him to an island in the Nile Delta because he defended the teachings of St. Athanasius the Great, but he eventually returned to his monastery, where he died at the age of 97. He is among the most authoritative of the Desert Fathers of Egypt and is important for his teaching about the centrality of the heart in prayer.
His feast day in the Roman Church is January 15. The Coptic Church celebrates his feast on April 5, and the Orthodox Church on January 19.
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