A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Macrina
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MACRINA, Sister of St. Basil and St. Gregory of Nyssa,
Was a woman of great piety and learning; who, after the death of her father, her brothers and sisters being settled, retired with her mother Emmelia to a convent which they founded on an estate of their own in Pontus, near the river Iris, and there died, 379. St. Gregory of Nyssa has written her life.
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