Macarius - ܡܩܪܝܣ

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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

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
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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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., vol: III, p: 47.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 1797, 1758, 200, 293, 135, 295, 1639, 202, 437.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 279.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 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

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Macarius — ܡܩܪܝܣ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/856.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Macarius — ܡܩܪܝܣ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/856.

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Entry Title: Macarius — ܡܩܪܝܣ

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

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