MACARIUS of ALEXANDRIA. — On the various persons named M. who were famous in Egypt, C. Butler has treated (The Lausiac history of Palladius, III [Texts and Studies, 6, 11], Cambridge 1904, pp. 193 ff.). M. of A. is mentioned by Palladius, ibid. 18 (pp. 47, 22 ff.), who knew him personally. He also bears the nickname: δοῦλος (Socrates, Hist., IV, 23), which Sozomen, Hist. etc., III, 24 interprets as δοῦλος, i.e., the inhabitant of the city of Alexandria, and also of M. the Younger, to distinguish him from the namesake, called M. the Egyptian or the Elder. Anchorite in Egypt, he died about 393.
A Sermon on the departure and state of souls after this life (PG 34, 385-92; also in Syriac translation: V. A. Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur, Bonn 1922, p. 86 and n. 1 and in Arabic translation G. Graf, op. cit. in bibl., p. 395) has been attributed to him, but certainly wrongly. The Rule of M. to monks (PG 34, 967 ff.) is also apocryphal.