Commemorated on January 6
Saint Macarius was born in Thessalonica during the reign of Emperor Manuel II Paleologos, and went to Vatopedi Monastery on Mt. Athos when he was young. Later, he went to Constantinople and became igumen of the Monastery of the Pantokrator, and chaplain to the Emperor.
He died in 1431 during an epidemic in Chalke.
SOURCE:
SAINT OR FEAST POSTED THIS DATE 2010(with 2009's link here also and further, 2008's):
The Psychological Lesson in the Life on Martyrs Faith, Hope, and Love, and
their Mother Sophia
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Viktor Luzhkov
There are sufferings that cannot be avoided—sufferings that must be lived
through, and within which the soul, if anchored in faith, attains ...
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