Martyr
Macra
A virgin of Gaul who suffered for Christ around 287.
Life
Saint Macra was a virgin of Reims in Gaul who suffered for Christ at Fismes in Champagne around 287, before the great persecution of Diocletian.
According to the Roman Martyrology, the governor Rictiovarus ordered her to be cast into the fire, but she remained unharmed. She was then subjected to cruel torments and shut in a dark dungeon, and after being tortured in many ways she gave up her soul while praying.
She is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 6 January (new style).
Commemorated the same day January 6
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