"Sinaxar," compiled by the Athos hieromonk Macarius from the monastery of Simonopetra, is a unique book that has no analogues among such hagiographic collections. At the same time, she creatively continues the ancient synaxar tradition of the Orthodox Church. Initially, the work of Father Macarius was conceived as a modern revision of the widely known in the Greek Orthodox world "Sinaxar" St. Nicodemus Svyatogorets (recall that the latter, in turn, based his collection on more ancient samples) and the expanded versions of this "Sinaxar" compiled a little later.