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On this diaconal site, for once, St Macrina will precede her influential brother! Gregory wrote a memoir of his sister's life:  http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/gregory_macrina_1_life.htm Here's a taster,  which may appeal to big sisters everywhere: Macrina's brother, the great Basil, returned after his long period of [966C] education, already a practised rhetorician. He was puffed up beyond measure … Continue reading FEAST OF ST MACRINA, DEACONESS, AND ST GREGORY OF NYSSA