Macarius of Corinth (also Makarios; born Michael Notaras, Μιχαὴλ Νοταρᾶς; ; 1731–1805) was Metropolitan bishop of Corinth, was a mystic and spiritual writer who worked to revive and mostly sustain the

Eastern Orthodox Church The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is List of Christian denominations by number of members, one of the three major doctrinal and ...

under Turkish rule. He is most famous for working with Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain in collecting and compiling the ascetic text of the ''

Philokalia The ''Philokalia'' (, from ''philia'' "love" and ''kallos'' "beauty") is "a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters" of the mystical hesychast tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church. They were or ...

''.''A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West'' by Michael Walsh pg 378, Published by Liturgical Press, 2007 , 978081463186

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With his friend Nicodemus, Makarios compiled the five tomes of the ''

'' that were first published in Venice in 1782. It was the publication of these sacred and spiritual texts that led to a renewal of the hesychast movement within Eastern Orthodox.

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{{Authority control Hesychasts 1731 births 1805 deaths Greek Christians Greek theologians Saints of Ottoman Greece Orthodox bishops of Corinth Greek saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Philokalia

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