Lentorama 2006 Saint of the Day: Macarius of Jersusalem
A fourth century bishop of Jerusalem, all Macarius did was be the driving force behind the Nicaean Creed, and with St. Helena find the True Cross and construct the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. With that resume, you think we'd hear more about this guy.
(I know, the True Cross thing smacks of the obsession with relics, but he's at least in on the finding, not someone who wandered along centuries later with a piece of wood in a shiny metal box making fanciful claims about its origin.)
Helena, for what it's worth, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine. Good company to keep if you want to be a saint, I'd think.
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