{"id":978,"date":"2025-01-19T22:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T22:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=978"},"modified":"2025-01-19T22:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T22:51:21","slug":"saints-2025-01-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2025\/01\/19\/saints-2025-01-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints &#8211; 2025-01-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Macarius the Great of Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Macarius the Great of Egypt was born in the early fourth century in the village of Ptinapor in Egypt. Saint Macarius repelled the attacks of the devil, defending himself with prayer and the Sign of the Cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once, while he was praying, Saint Macarius heard a voice: \u201cMacarius, you have not yet attained such perfection in virtue as two women who live in the city.\u201d The humble ascetic went to the city, found the house where the women lived, and knocked. The women received him with joy, and he said, \u201cI have come from the desert seeking you in order to learn of your good deeds. Tell me about them, and conceal nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The women answered with surprise, \u201cWe live with our husbands, and we have not such virtues.\u201d But the saint continued to insist, and the women then told him, \u201cWe married two brothers. After living together in one house for fifteen years, we have not uttered a single malicious nor shameful word, and we never quarrel among ourselves. We asked our husbands to allow us to enter a women\u2019s monastery, but they would not agree. We vowed not to utter a single worldly word until our death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Macarius glorified God and said, \u201cIn truth, the Lord seeks neither virgins nor married women, and neither monks nor laymen, but values a person\u2019s free intent, accepting it as the deed itself. He grants to everyone\u2019s free will the grace of the Holy Spirit, which operates in an individual and directs the life of all who yearn to be saved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oca.org\/saints\/lives\/2025\/01\/19\/100226-venerable-macarius-the-great-of-egypt\">OCA Site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Makarios of Alexandria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born in the year 295, and until the age of forty he was occupied in trade. Later, he was baptized and withdrew into the desert, where he spent more than sixty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark, Bishop of Ephesus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Makarios, Hierodeacon of Kalogera, Patmos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Arsenius of Corfu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Removal of the Honorable Relics of Saint Gregory the Theologian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Branwallader, Bishop of Jersey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macarius the Great of Egypt Saint Macarius the Great of Egypt was born in the early fourth century in the village of Ptinapor in Egypt. Saint Macarius repelled the attacks of the devil, defending himself with prayer and the Sign of the Cross. Once, while he was praying, Saint Macarius heard a voice: \u201cMacarius, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}