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Welcome to Form Now. I am Dr. Elizabeth Klein and here with me today is Dr. Jessica Murdoch.

We are both professors who teach here at the Augustine Institute. And we decided to do a little series on holy women you've never heard of.

So more obscure female saints. I have lots of feminine saintly heroes from

tradition that aren't necessarily as popular as I think they should be. And so we're going to cover

some of these saints and we're going to do them in chronological order. So we have a couple from the

early church, a couple sort of medieval saints and one modern saint. So for this first episode of more obscure female

saints, we're going to be talking about one of my favorites, St. McCrena the Younger. Tell me more

about St. McRena. I don't know so much about her, except for that she's a sister to the Cappadocian.

Yeah, I think St. McCrina, I think she should be really famous, but unfortunately has been

eclipsed by her more famous brothers. So I like to say that St. McCrina, I think she should be really famous, but unfortunately has been eclipsed by her more

famous brothers. So I like to say that St. Macrina is from the second holiest family because

she's the older sister to three canonized saints, Basil the Great, or Basil of Caesarea,

Gregor of Nisza and Peter of Sebast. Her mother is also a saint, regarded as St.

St. Amelia. And then her grandparents all suffered under the persecution under Diocletian. So she's

an early Christian saint from the fourth century. And so the generation before her, there was

kind of a persecution under a particular emperor. So all of her grandparents were divested of their property.

And her grandmother, Makrina, the elder, was a martyr.

And so she has a kind of very holy family.

And then closely sort of in their family's circle is also Gregor Vnazianz,

who's also, as Dr. Murdoch was mentioning, is called the Capodototian.

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