Saint Macarius the Spiritbearer: Coptic Texts Relating to Saint Macarius the Great (Biblia.com)

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These three texts—The Sayings of Saint Macarius, The Virtues of Saint Macarius, and The Life of Saint Macarius of Scetis—provide insight into one of the most venerated saints of the Coptic Church and into the life in the Egyptian monastic communities of the fourth century. Macarius the Great (also referred to as Macarius of Egypt or Macarius the Egyptian) presided over a loosely knit scattering...

and celebrated the liturgy, giving glory to our Lord Jesus Christ.” Abba Macarius Recounts a Visit He Made to an Old Man 44 Abba Macarius said, “I visited an old man who had taken to his bed with an illness, but the old man preferred to say the saving and blessed name of our Lord Jesus Christ. While I asked him about his health he joyfully said to me, ‘While I was persevering in partaking of the sweet food of life of the holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I was seized with the sweetness of sleep.

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