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Thou that didst break the flaming sword and didst restore to
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which they believe demonstrate her conviction that all sinners and demons will at last be purified and confess Christ. This claim to her
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Macrina is significant in that she set the standard for being a holy Early
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253:. Her father arranged for her to marry, but her fiancé died before the wedding. After having been betrothed, Macrina did not believe it was appropriate to marry another man, but saw
294:(P.G. XLVI, 12 sq.), to commemorate Macrina, in which Gregory purports to describe the conversation he had with the dying Macrina, in a literary form modelled on Plato's
268:, and those parts of it which have an ethical bearing, "such parts as you would think were incomprehensible to young children were the subject of the girl's studies".
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283:. Gregory of Nyssa composed a
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121:Eastern Orthodox Church
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