Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Macauley, Thomas, D.D., LL.D. a Presbyterian minister of note, was born in 1777, and was educated at Union College, where he afterwards filled a professor’s chair. He subsequently entered the ministry, and died May 11, 1862, while pastor of the Murray Street Church in New York City. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Macaulay, Zachary F.R.S., an English philanthropist, of Scottish descent, born in 1768, father of the historian, a merchant, fought forty years with William Wilberforce in promotion of the British and-slavery movement. He died May 13,1838. See Lond. Genil. Mag. (March, 1838, page 323; December 1838, page 678); Thomas, Dict. of Biog. and Mythol. s.v. Fuente: … Continue reading “Macaulay, Zachary”

Macaulay, Aulay an English divine, was born near the opening of the 18th century, and was educated at the University of Glasgow. He was minister of the church and parish of Cardross, Dumbartonshire, and died in 1797. He published a sermon on the Peculiar Advantages of Sunday Schools (1792, 8vo); also other sermons. See Lond. … Continue reading “Macaulay, Aulay”

Macau, China, diocese of At the mouth of the Canton River. Erected 23 January 1576 as a suffragan of Goa. Direct suffragen of the Vatican. See also: Catholic-Hierarchy.Org World Fact Book diocese of Macau patron saints index New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Macassar (and Bugis) Version Of The Scriptures The Bugis and the Macassar dialects are the most prevalent of those spoken among the various native states comprised in the large island of Celebes. They both resemble the Malayan; the Bugis being the most cultured of the two, and possessing a separate alphabet. A translation in each … Continue reading “Macassar (and Bugis) Version Of The Scriptures”

Macassar the most southern portion of Celebes, situated in lat. 40 35′-50 50′ S., and long. 119 25’1200 30′ E., and traversed by a lofty chain of mountains, formerly the greatest naval power among the Malay states, is divided into the Dutch possessions and Malay Proper; the latter, of little importance, is governed by a … Continue reading “Macassar”

Macarius, Saint Martyr (c.314-335), thirty-ninth Bishop of Jerusalem. He opposed Arius and his new heresy, and at the Council of Nica assisted in formulating the Nicene Creed. The Emperor Constantine placed him in charge of the excavations for discovering the sites of the Passion and Resurrection and the finding of the True Cross. Under his … Continue reading “Macarius, Saint”

Macarius, presbyter of Athanasius Macarius (12), presbyter of Athanasius. Early in his episcopate, perhaps in 329 or 330 (if his consecration was on June 8, 328, as Hefele reckons, Councils, ii. 4), Athanasius, on a visitation in Mareotis, was informed that a layman named Ischyras was exercising priestly functions. Macarius was sent to summon the … Continue reading “Macarius, presbyter of Athanasius”

Macarius of Antioch A Patriarch, deposed in 681. Macarius’s dignity seems to have been a purely honorary one, for his patriarchate lay under the dominion of the Saracens, and he himself resided at Constantinople. Nothing is known of him before the Sixth General Council which deposed him on account of his Monothelitism, and after the … Continue reading “Macarius of Antioch”

Macarius Magnus, Magnes, a writer Macarius (9) Magnus, a writer of the end of the 4th cent. Four centuries after, his name had sunk into almost complete oblivion, when in the course of the image controversy a quotation from him was produced on the iconoclastic side. Nicephorus, then or afterwards patriarch of Constantinople, had never … Continue reading “Macarius Magnus, Magnes, a writer”