Macarius - ܡܩܪܝܣ
http://syriaca.org/person/856
In hagiography: Māqārīs (Macarius) the
Elder was an ascetic who came into the Syriac tradition via ʿEnanishoʿ's Syriac translation of the Paradise of
the Fathers
[http://syriaca.org/work/403]
by Palladius.
Names
- ܡܩܪܝܣ6
- Macarius
- ܡܩܪܝܣ ܐܚܪܢܐ3, 4
- ܡܲܩܵܪܝܼܣ ܐܚܪܹܢܵܐ3
- مقاريوس المصري2
- Abba Macarius5
- ANBA MACAIRE7
- Anba Macarius
- Macaire6
- Macaire l’Égyptien6
- Macarius the Egyptian
- Māqārīs6
- Māqārīs6
- Macarius
- Macarius the Great and Egyptian1
- Makarios9
Death
390
Attestations
Macarius is
commemorated in Macarius
(text)
[http://syriaca.org/work/420]
.
7
Macarius is
commemorated in Macarius
(text)
[http://syriaca.org/work/513]
.
7
Macarius is
commemorated in Macarius the
Great (text)
[http://syriaca.org/work/355]
.
7
Macarius is
commemorated in Macarius
(text)
[http://syriaca.org/work/515]
.
7
Macarius is
commemorated in Macarius the
Egyptian (text)
[http://syriaca.org/work/1709]
.
7
Macarius is
commemorated in Macarius the
Egyptian (text)
[http://syriaca.org/work/422]
.
7
Macarius is
commemorated in Macarius the
Egyptian and Macarius of Alexandria (text)
[http://syriaca.org/work/653]
.
7
Macarius is
commemorated in Macarius,
John, Bishoi, Maximus and Dometius (Fathers of Egypt)
(text)
[http://syriaca.org/work/1847]
.
6
Macarius is
commemorated in Macarius,
Maximus, Dometius, and John the Short (text)
[http://syriaca.org/work/1816]
.
6
Notes
The identity of the
multiple ascetic authors and saints named Macarius has been a source of
confusion, both in the medieval Syriac traditions and in present
scholarship.10
Status: draft
Is this record complete?
Works Cited
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- 1 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 137.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 122.
- 3 ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha, Ktābā d-metqre margānitā d-ʿal šrārā da-kresṭyānutā, 2nd ed. (Mosul: Mṭabbaʿtā ātoraytā d-ʿēdtā ʿattiqtā d-madnḥā, 1924), p: 68.
- 4 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., vol: III, p: 47.
- 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Abba Macarius.
- 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 1797, 1758, 200, 293, 135, 295, 1639, 202, 437.
- 7 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 279.
- 8 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., vol: VIII, p: 410-17.
- 9 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), p: 85-86.
- 10 Marcus Plested, The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christian Tradition , p: 9–29.
- 11 Wadid el Macari, La balance du coeur: Un substrat égyptien aux homélies macariennes
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Additional Credit:
- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
- German data entry by Samer Khader
- Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
- Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
- Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
- Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne