TRANSLATIONS

The Life of Macrina, by Gregory of Nyssa
Translated by Kevin Corrigan

The life of the "Mother of Eastern Monasticism" whose example inspired her brother, St. Basil the Great, to establish one of the first monastic communities.

'One of the most extraordinary texts in early monastic literature
. . . full of unique information about female monasticism, it is an 
essential complement to Basil's monastic writings.'
-Columba Stewart osb, author of Cassian the Monk (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)

'A luminous account of the practical, forceful, and effective work of 
this monastic founder and spiritual guide.'
-Susan Ashbrook Harvey, author of Asceticism and Society in Crisis: 
John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)

 

This woodcut of Macrina is taken frmo the 1990 Calendar of Holy Women and was 
executed by Nancy Ruth Jackson (Toronto, Canada): Peregrina Publishing Co., 1990).

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