Name
Makarios the Alexandrian, ascetic in Nitria, ob. c. 395
Saint ID
S00101
Gender
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Hermits/recluses
| ID | Title | E00217 | Fulgentius, bishop of Ruspe, in his treatise On the Truth of Predestination, refers to holy monks of Egypt, whom he knows most probably from monastic hagiography, as examples of saintly life. Contains references to *Paul (the First Anchorite, S00089), *Antony ('the Great', monk of Egypt, ob. 356, S00098), *Hilarion (anchorite in Palestine and Cyprus, ob. 371, S00099), *Makarios (probably Makarios 'the Egyptian', monastic founder in the Sketis, ob.391, S00863), and *Ioannes/John (probably of Lycopolis, anchorite of Egypt, S00102). Written in Latin in Ruspe (Byzacena, central North Africa), c. 523. | E02887 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 21 January the dedication of the Monastery of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036), *Timothy (the disciple of Paul the Apostle, S00466), *Makarios (probably Makarios 'the Egyptian', monastic founder in the Sketis, ob. 391, S00863), and *Maximos the Confessor (S01455). | E03176 | Palladius of Helenopolis writes the Lausiac History, a collection of short narratives and teachings of male and female ascetics in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Asia Minor, and Italy, commissioned by the patrician Lausos. Written in Greek at Aspuna or Ankyra (both Galatia, central Asia Minor), 419/420. Overview entry | E03319 | Palladius of Helenopolis, in his Lausiac History (18), recounts the story of *Makarios (the Alexandrian, ascetic in Nitria, Lower Egypt, ob. c. 395, S00101), including miracles of exorcism. Written in Greek at Aspuna or Ankyra (both Galatia, central Asia Minor), 419/420. | E03558 | An anonymous monk of Jerusalem writes the History of the Monks in Egypt, a collection of stories about holy men and monastic communities, which he recorded during a visit to the monasteries of Egypt in 394/5. It is the first monastic collection in Christian literature. Written in Greek at Jerusalem, 395/397. Overview entry. | E04012 | Socrates, in his Ecclesiastical History (4.23), refers to the stories of several holy monastics from Egypt, based on information from the History of the Monks in Egypt and the Lausiac History. He also reports that the Egyptian monk Ammonios (ascetic of Kellia, buried near Constantinople, ob. 403, S01263) visited the shrines of the Apostles *Peter and *Paul (S00036 and S00008) in Rome in 339/345. Written in Greek at Constantinople, 439/446. |
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