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Солнцев, Фёдор Григорьевич  · Public domain

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Macarius of Alexandria

Macarius Alexandrinus la

Monk in the Nitrian Desert

  • Dated 297 CE – 393 CE
  • Recognised as The Venerable

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Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

Macarius of Alexandria monk in the Nitrian Desert
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