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As their teacher, Abp. Macarius set about preaching to the people. He strove to rid the Church of corruption and ineffectual [[priest]]s. He established a preparation plan of the sending candidates for the priesthood to monasteries for education and training so that all priests were properly qualified. He also ensured that adequately sized baptismal fonts were available so that [[baptism]]s were properly performed.
In 1768, the Russo-Turkish War forced Abp. Macarius to flee Corinth with his family and by the time he returned the [[Holy Synod]] of the Constantinople Patriarchate had assigned a new [[archbishop]] for Corinth for diplomatic reasons. The Synod, however, gave to Abp. Macarius the right to serve anywhere he liked unhindered. He wandered to Chios and then [[Mount Athos]] where he became involve in the [[Kollyvades Movement|Kollyvades movement]], taking a strict stand on keeping the early Christian practices and ridding the Church of bad innovations such as memorial services for the dead on Sundays. Finding the upheaval at Athos disappointing, Abp. Macarius left for Chios and then Patmos.
On Patmos, Macarius was attracted by the Holy Cave of the Revelation and the Godly guarded Monastery of St. Christodoulos. There in 1782, with the permission of the [[Monastery of St. John the Theologian (Patmos, Greece)|Monastery of Saint John]], Abp. Macarius founded a [[hermitage]] with a small [[church]] to honor All the Saints on Mount of Koumana and spent the next ten years. There he met Niphon of Chios, Gregory of Nisyros, and Athanasius of Armenia. In his isolation, Macarius began copying, by hand, the codices and wrote a biography of St. Christodoulos. Finding works of the Fathers of the Church in the [[monastery]] library, Macarius selected from them material for the [[Philokalia]] that, later, he gave to St. [[Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain|Nicodemus the Athonite]].
==External link==
* [http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/04/st-makarios-notaras-and-hermitage-of.html St. Makarios Notaras and Patmos]
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