Saint
Gregory Makar
A hierarch of Armenian origin, in Western calendars, died around the year 1000; few details survive.
Life
Gregory Makar was an Armenian who became a monk and was elected bishop of Nicopolis in Armenia. He fled to France and settled as a hermit at Pithiviers near Orléans. He died around the year 1000. He is remembered on 16 March in the Western calendar (new style).
No other details have been preserved. He is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.
Commemorated the same day March 16
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