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Macarius of Egypt
Desert father (c. 300-390) — one of the towering figures of the Egyptian desert, whose sayings define the tradition.
St. Macarius the Great (also called Macarius of Egypt) was one of the towering figures of the Egyptian desert, spending sixty years in the desert of Scetis. The Fifty Spiritual Homilies attributed to him present the heart as the battlefield of the spiritual life and the kingdom of God as already present within the pure heart. His sayings in the Apophthegmata are among the most profound in the tradition.