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The Monk Makarios Commemorated on August 18, April 1 The Monk Makarios,
Hegumen of the Pelikiteia Monastery, was born at Tsar'grad
(Constantinople). While still a lad he lost his parents. The saint fervently
read the Word of God and became so absorbed with it, that he decided to devote
his life entirely to God. He entered the Pelikiteia monastery in Bithynia, where
at the time the hegumen was the reknown ascetic, the Monk Ilarion (+ c. 754,
Comm. 28 March). After the death of this monastic head, the Monk Makarios was
unanimously chosen by the brethren as hegumen. During the reign of the
Byzantine emperors Leo V the Armenian (813-820) and Michael II the Stammerer
(820-829), the Monk Makarios suffered as a confessor for the veneration of holy
icons. He was dispatched to the island of Aphusia, where he died in about the
year 830. © 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos. |
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