St. Macrina the Elder

[hungrytiger]

Perhaps this is a bit of an odd request, but after reading about St. Macrina the Elder I was hoping to find an icon of her online to see but I couldn't find one. Maybe one of you could help me find one?

[Shubunkin]

I only found an icon of Macrina the sister of St. Basil the Great at http://www.oca.org/ just put "Macrina" into the search engine there.

[hungrytiger]

I only found an icon of Macrina the sister of St. Basil the Great at http://www.oca.org/ just put "Macrina" into the search engine there.
Thanks. But I think that's Macrina the Younger, the granddaughter of the other one.

[nutroll]

I recently painted an icon of Macrina the Younger, and found it difficult to find a good prototype. I don't recall ever seeing an icon of St. Macrina the Elder, though a good place to start is with looking at "calendar icons" if you know an obscure saint's feast day. If I happen to come across one, I'll post it.

[hungrytiger]

Hm. Actually I'm not finding her in the online OCA or GOARCH calendars. Maybe she's not recoginized as an Orthodox saint? If so I apologize, I guess I was confused. *blush* I had seen an ad for the children's book Keeper of the Light: Saint Macrina the Elder, Grandmother of Saints (http://www.light-n-life.com/shopping/order_product.asp?ProductNum=KEEP010) and she's on Orthodoxwiki (http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Macrina_the_Elder), so I had thought she was.

[hungrytiger]

I recently painted an icon of Macrina the Younger, and found it difficult to find a good prototype. I don't recall ever seeing an icon of St. Macrina the Elder, though a good place to start is with looking at "calendar icons" if you know an obscure saint's feast day. If I happen to come across one, I'll post it.
Thanks!

Where would one look for these "calendar icons" and what are they?

I think her feast day is January 14, if that helps.

[Shubunkin]

I thought I had read about St. Macrina the Elder on OCA.org ... just the other day. Strange. :confused:

[choirfiend]

cpied from another forum

The one married woman saint (aside from the Theotokos) whom I think of as a wonderful example for all married women is St. Macrina the Elder. She was the wife of a saint (St. Basil), mother of a saint (St. Basil the Elder), mother-in-law of a saint (St. Emmelia), and grandmother of 5 saints (St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Macrina the Nun, St. Peter of Sebastea and Saint Naucratius). She and her husband and young son suffered persecutions under Diocletian, lost their property, were exiled in the wilderness where they were fed by God's hand through harts and rabbits that would come an offer themselves to the saints. After seven years, they were restored to their estates, only to have them stripped from them yet again during the last persecutions before the Edict of Milan. Finally, their properties were restored to them. Their son married Emmelia and they in turn had 9 children, 5 of whom became saints because of the examples of three strong women: St. Macrina the Elder, a married woman; St. Emmelia, a married woman; and St. Macrina the Younger (the Nun), a virgin.

This family has much to teach us about how to live our lives as Orthodox Christians - with joy in the risen Lord, with hope for His second coming, and with faith that God's will is being done, even if we don't "see" it all the time.

This family speaks to all men and women, married and single, with one or 9 children, or childless, monastic or "in the world."

There is a new book about St. Macrina the Elder - Keeper of the Light: St. Macrina the Elder, Grandmother of Saints by Bev Cooke, an Orthodox Christian in Canada. It is available through the major Orthodox book purveyors as well as at Amazon.com. Althrough written simply so children can read it themselves, it contains profound examples for us in terms of how to live our lives so that we show forth God's love to those around us.

[choirfiend]

http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Macrina_the_Elder
and maybe the best

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/riggs/StMacrinaElder.html

[hungrytiger]

Thank you, choirfiend. :)

[Shubunkin]

She is an interesting saint. :)