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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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June 20 · Bishop

St. Macarius

St. Macarius

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

June 20
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 20 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. By the Greeks he is called S. Arius, which was his proper name, but because that name has been rendered odious by having been borne by the heresiarch, it has been transformed in the Maityrology to Macarius.] S. Macarius is mentioned by S. Athanasius in his letter to the solitaries of Egypt. He subscribed the decrees of the council of Sardica, and was banished by the Arian emperor Constantius. His see was Petra in Palestine. He was accompanied into exile by S. Asterius, bishop of Petra in Arabia.

Feast days

Feast: June 20

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Macarius's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.