Facts: - death place: hermitage of st. peter , chios - venerated in: eastern orthodox church - feast day: april 17 - death date: april 17 , 1805 - birth date: 1731 - name: saint makarios of corinth - image: agios makarios arxiepiskopos korinthou notaras.jpg - birth place: corinth , greece Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of macarius of corinth .
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macarius of corinth -lrb- birth name : macarius notaras -lrb- -rrb- was born in corinth in 1731 and died in chios in april 1805 .st macarius as metropolitan bishop of corinth , was a mystic and spiritual writer who worked to revive and mostly sustain the orthodox church under turkish rule .he is most famous for working with nicodemus of the holy mountain in collecting and compiling the ascetic text of the philokalia .