Macrina the Elder
Macrina the Elder (before AD 270 – ) was the mother of Basil the Elder, and the grandmother of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Macrina the Younger.
Life
The works of Basil indicate that she studied under Greg ...
(before 270 – c. 340), saint and mother and grandmother of several saints, patron saint of widows
*Saint
Macrina the Younger
Macrina the Younger (c. 327 – 19 July 379) was an early Christian consecrated virgin. She is regarded as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican churches. Macrina was elder sister of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and ...
, (324 – 379), daughter of Saint Basil the Elder and granddaughter of the above
*Măcrina, a village in Puieşti Commune, Buzău County, Romania
* '' Macrina (insect)'', a genus of
shield bugs
The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the Heteroptera suborder of the Hemiptera order. As Hemiptera, they share a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families (16 ...
in the
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
Phyllocephalini
The Phyllocephalinae are a subfamily of shield bugs erected by Amyot and Serville in 1843.
Tribes and genera
''BioLib'' lists the following genera in four tribes: