Machar

Machar may refer to:

  • Agnes Maule Machar (1837–1927), Canadian author
  • Josef Svatopluk Machar (1854–1942), Czech poet and essayist
  • Machar, The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism, congregation in the Washington, DC metro area
  • Machair (geography), a type of fertile low-lying raised beach
  • machar, a transliteration of the Hebrew word meaning "tomorrow"
  • Machar Colony, a neighborhood in Kiamari Town, Pakistan
  • Machar, Ontario, a township in Canada
  • the Machars, a peninsula in southwest Scotland
  • Riek Machar (b. 1952), the Vice President of Southern Sudan
  • Saint Machar, a purported 6th century Gaelic saint
  • St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen, Scotland
  • Machar Oilfield a part of the Eastern Trough Area Project in the North Sea
  • or Mosquito is called as Macchar in Hindi and Urdu
  • an Anglicisation of Machair
  • Saint Machar

    Machar was a 6th-century Irish Saint active in Scotland.

    A Bishop of Irish origin, Machar is said to have been a former nobleman, baptized by St Colman. He came to Iona with Columba and preached in Mull and later ministered to the Picts around Aberdeen. For this reason he was described anachronistically as the first Bishop of the see of Aberdeen. His legend, however, in the Aberdeen breviary makes him "Archbishop of Tours", appointed by Gregory the Great for the last few years of his life. This story deserves no credence. Water from his well was used for baptism in Aberdeen Cathedral. A few dedications survive from this area.

    Much of what is claimed to be known about St Machar derives from the Aberdeen Breviary, a work compiled in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries, long after the traditional date of Machar's life. It is therefore hard to assess its reliability.

    One recent theory is that St Machar and St Mungo were the same person, on the grounds of a possible link between their names (Colm Ó Baoill, St Machar - some linguistic light?, Innes Review XLIV, p. 1-13).

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Maker

    by: Hollies

    (Clarke / Hicks / Nash)
    Days of yellow saffron.
    Nights with purple skies.
    Melting in the sunbeams
    from my maker's eyes.
    Mountain-colored lilac
    in the distant haze.
    I would like to lie here,
    timing all my days
    Move past my window,
    sunshine is shimmering
    jack-o-lanterns glimmering,
    giant moths are flickering around.
    See, the moon is hiding
    underneath the sea.
    Pretty soon he'll venture
    to take a look at me.
    So I humbly stand here
    beneath his golden glow.
    Doesn't he remind me
    of somebody I know?
    I must be leaving,
    back to reality.
    Don't you just pity me?
    I could so easily stay here.




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