(ABOUT A.D. 335.)
[Roman Martyrology. Authorities:--Eusebius, Theodoret Socrates.]
S. Macarius was created bishop of Jerusalem in the year 314. He was
present at the great council of Nicæa, against Arius, whom he always
opposed from the beginning of his heretical teaching. The historian
Socrates has preserved for us a letter written to him by the Emperor
Constantine. There was another Macarius, bishop of the same see, in
the reign of the Emperor Justinian, who was driven from his see for
defending the heresy of the Origenists; but having recanted, was
restored.