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1 A DICTIONARY OF SAINTLY WOMEN St. Mabe. A churoh and village in Cornwall are called by this name. Pro- bably same as Mabena. -St. Mabel or Mabille, Isabel or Elisabeth. Cahier. St. Mabena, Mabina or Maby is represented on a window in St. German's cbnrcb, in Cornwall, having on her lap a dead Christ crowned with thorns ( Whitaker, lAfe of St. Neot). Daughter of Brychan (Smith and Wace). {See Almheda.) St. Macaona or Maghaonia, Deo. 15, M. Guerin. St. Macaria ( l ) or Macarius, April 8, M. with SS. Maxima (3^ and Januarius, at Carthage. BM. AA.SS, St. Macaria (2), April 6, M. at Alexandria. AA.SS. St. Macaria (3) or Madi aria, April 7, M. with St. Maxima at Antioch. AA.SS. St. Macaria (4) or Marcia, April 14, M. at Terano in Umbria. AA.SS. St. Machaonia, Macaona. St. Maches, M. First half of the 6th century. Daughter of St. Gwynllyw and sister of St. Cattwg and several other saints. St. Maches gave alms to all who asked, and was stabbed by a heathen Saxon who came to her begging, at a place called afterwards Merthyr Maches or Llanfaches in Monmouthshire. Kees. St. Macra, Jan. a (Maora, Maker), v. M. c. 803, at Fimes, near Bheims. Patron of Fimes. Bictiovarus was sent by Diocletian and Maximian to put down Christianity in Gaul. In this persecution Macra was stretched over burning coals, and so died. Elen ar a ( 1 ) VOL. II. and Sponsaria were her companions. Roman, German and Gallican Martyr- ologies. AA.SS. Tillemont. St. Macrina (l), Jan. 14, + c. 340. Grandmother of SS. Macrina (2), Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, and Peter of Sebaste. Mother of St. Basil who married St. Ebuly (1). Macrina was bom at NeocsBsarea in Pontus, soon after the death of its famous bishop St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, and she was brought up to yenerate his memory and follow his precepts. She married a Christian of good family and consider- able property in Pontus and Cappadocia. During the persecution under Galerius and Maximianus they were compelled to leave their home and conceal themselyes with a few deyoted servants in a forest on the mountains of Pontus. Here they lived for seven years in great privation, sometimes only saved from starvation by the timely appearance of stags and the miraculous ease with which they were enabled to catch these wild animals. They returned home in 311, but when persecution was renewed, their possessions were confiscated and they suffered great distress. They, however, regained part of their property and, after her husband's death, Macrina lived in her own country house at Annesi on the Iris, and brought up her grandson St. Basil the Great. She is spoken of with praise in the writ- ings of her famous grandsons and in the history of Macrina (2). B.M. Baillet. Smith and Wace. St. Macrina (2), July 19, c. 327- 379. Granddaughter of Macrina (1). B