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 Auxentius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is not to be confused with Saint Auxentius of Mopsuestia (d.
Auxentius was the foster-son of Ulfilas, the "apostle to the Goths", who translated the Gothic Bible and converted the Goths to Arian Christianity.
Along with the Creed of Ulfilas it is one of the chief witnesses to the credence of the Arian Christians and the politics of the Church at the time when Nicene Christianity continued to be debated at the highest levels of the Catholic Church.
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 Saints of December 18
Auxentius was probably a high-ranking officer in the personal guard of the Emperor Augustus Licinus, who co-signed the Edict of Milan in 313, which provided religious tolerance for Christians.
Auxentius was one of the bishops who were 'defenders of the city' instituted by the Church itself against 'the insolence' of imperial officials.
Auxentius is represented in art as a Roman soldier refusing to sacrifice to Bacchus (Roeder).
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1218.htm   (1345 words)

  
 OCA - Feasts and Saints: Life of Saint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Saint Auxentius, by origin a Syrian, served at the court of the emperor Theodosius the Younger (418-450).
St Auxentius healed many of the sick and the infirm in the name of the Lord.
In the year 451 St Auxentius was invited to the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon, where he denounced the Eutychian and Nestorian heresies.
ocafs.oca.org /FeastSaintsLife.asp?FSID=100518   (251 words)

  
 Prologue: hagiographies of the saints
Auxentius was a very prominent aristocrat among the noblemen and courtiers at the court of Emperor Theodosius the Younger in Constantinople.
Enflamed with love for Christ, Auxentius was tonsured a monk and remained for a short time in Constantinople.
When men began to praise him, he fled from their praise and settled on a mountain called Skopa near Chalcedon, which later was referred to as Auxentius' Mountain.
www.mpc.org.mk /English/Calendar/prologue.asp?id=1137   (187 words)

  
 The Ecole Initiative: Ambrose of Milan
Auxentius had been a popular preacher and a skillful player of ecclesiastical politics.
A complex alliance of Justina, her courtiers, and one Mercurinus Auxentius, a former bishop of Durostorum on the Lower Danube, conspired to pursue the issue of granting the homoians territory on which to worship.
The miscellaneous works consist of funeral sermons for Satyrus, Valentinian II, and Theodosius, his sermon against Auxentius, hymns (the authentic number of which is debated), and a fascinating collection of some ninety-one epistles, which reveal a carefully controlled public presentation of Ambrose's political and spiritual character.
www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/articles/ambrose.html   (4182 words)

  
 HTC: Reception of Persons into the Orthodox Church - Chapter 3
Auxentius was seen as a holy man, and he attracted any number of men and women who would hang on to his every word, repented of their sins, begging for an imposition of his hands and asked for his prayers and blessing.
Auxentius was listened to not only by the simple people, but also by archons and archontes, and a large part of his hearers came over to his side and joined him in expressing their obvious dissatisfaction with Patriarch Paisius and the synod.
But as soon as Auxentius got into the boat and moved away from the shore, as if on a previously arranged cue, the troublemaker was strangled and his body was thrown into the sea (according to another version, Auxentius and two of his chief admirers were hanged).
www.holy-trinity.org /ecclesiology/pogodin-reception/reception-ch3.html   (4572 words)

  
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One of the most important documents is a letter written by Auxentius of Durostorum, foster-son of Wulfila, the man who translated the Gothic Bible.
Auxentius was known for his rhetorical skill, as you can see, and he was praised for his oratory by none other than Ambrose.
At any rate, the letter is from about 400 or a little earlier, and it gives witness as to the Arian party and the politics of the Church at the time.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/texts/auxentius.html   (664 words)

  
 Saint Lazarus
Auxentius was the leader of the 300 Alamanus, Greeks who went to Cyprus probably from Germany during the 12 century AD.
Auxentius ended up in cave at the the base of the Penatdactylos mountain in the Karpas peninsula between the villages of Komi Kebir and Eptakomi.
There Auxentius was buried and a chapel was erected in his memory.
enostos.net /church/St.Auxentius.htm   (373 words)

  
 The Holy Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius and Orestes. Commemorated December 13 (Civil Date: December ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Auxentius was a priest and Mardarius a simple citizen who came, like Eustratius, from the town of Aravraca.
The imperial governors, Lysias and Agricola, tortured Auxentius first as he was a priest.
Auxentius was beheaded, Eugene and Mardarius died under torture, Orestes was exposed on a red-hot iron grid and Eustratius died in a flaming furnace.
www.orthodox.net /menaion-december/13-the-holy-martyrs-eustratius-auxentius-eugene-mardariusorestes.html   (297 words)

  
 Letters XXI, XXII, XL & XLI (Incl. Sermon Against Auxentius On Giving Up Of The Basilicas)
Ambrose excuses himself for not having gone to the consistory when summoned, on the ground that in matters of faith no one but bishops could rightly judge, and that he was not contumacious because he would not suffer wrong to be done to his own order.
He says further that he is willing to discuss the matters in dispute at a synod, and that he would have told the Emperor his word of mouth what he is now writing, but that his fellow bishops and the people would not suffer him to do so.
He did not mention the names of those who had been asked for, but he added that there was to be a discussion in the consistory, and that the judgment of your piety would give the decision.
www.coptnet.com /Fathers/33/v33p22.htm   (15204 words)

  
 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. X
Auxentius, he adds, has been already condemned by the pagans, whom he had chosen to sit as judges, as he had been condemned by Paul and by Christ.
The heretic had forgotten the year before, when he had made the same appeal to Caesar; and the Arians, in stirring up ill-will against the servants of Christ, are much worse than the Jews: for the Church does not belong to Caesar, but displays the image of Christ.
Auxentius, to imitate this, sent a flying sword through all cities.
www.godrules.net /library/fathers/pnf10s50.htm   (5435 words)

  
 NPNF2-02. Socrates and Sozomenus Ecclesiastical Histories | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Synod held at Rome, by which Auxentius is deposed; the Definition which it sent by Letter.
The bishops of Gaul and of Venetia having reported that similar attempts to disturb the peace of the Church were being made by others among them, the bishops of several provinces assembled not long after at Rome, and decreed that Auxentius and those who held his sentiments should be aliens from their communion.
It is right, therefore, that all the teachers of the Roman world should be of one mind, and not pollute the faith by divers conflicting doctrines.
www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf202.iii.xi.xxiii.html   (732 words)

  
 Serbian Orthodox Church - Our Holy Father Auxentius
A very distinguished administrator in Constantinople among the officials and courtiers of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger, he was set aflame by the love of Christ.
Auxentius became a monk and remained only a short time in Constantinople.
When men began to praise him, he fled and settled on a mountain near Chalcedon that later became known as Auxentius's mountain.
www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net /cgi-bin/saints.cgi?view=933779384913   (240 words)

  
 AUXENTIUS (fl. c. 370) - Online Information article about AUXENTIUS (fl. c. 370)
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Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
Auxentius was installed into the seat of See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /AUD_BAI/AUXENTIUS_fl_c_370_.html   (218 words)

  
 Writings of Ambrose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
A sermon against Auxentius, concerning giving up the basilicas to the Arians, usually inserted between the twenty-first and twenty-second of the letters of St. Ambrose.
To his sister, Marcellina, giving an account of the frustrated attempts of the Arian and imperial party to gain possession of a basilica at Milan, a.d.
To the Emperor Valentinian II., declining the challenge to dispute with the Arian Auxentius before lay judges.
mb-soft.com /believe/txud/ambros16.htm   (4466 words)

  
 Ulfilas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Auxentius was clearly the closest to Ulfilas, and so presumably had access to more reliable information.
The letter of Auxentius, emphatically denying that Ulfilas was a heretic, was preserved in a copy of Ambrose De Fide.
Wulfila Glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Bishop Ulfilas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulfilas   (582 words)

  
 SAINTS AND FEASTS
Thou didst prove to be a citizen of the desert, an angel in the flesh, and a wonderworker, O Auxentius, our God-bearing Father.
Since thou tookest great delight in abstinence, O godly-minded one, and since thou didst bridle the desires of the flesh, thou didst ever increase in faith; and thou didst blossom forth like the tree in the midst of Paradise, O most sacred Father Auxentius.
This Saint, who was from the East, lived during the reign of Saint Theodosius the Younger.
www.goarch.org /en/Chapel/saints.asp?contentid=429   (240 words)

  
 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 14
Auxentius, son of the Persian Addas, was an equestrian guard of Emperor Theodosius the Younger.
He served God in the position by serving his prince faithfully and providing witness to his fellows by spending his free time in solitude and prayer.
During this portion of his life, Auxentius often visited the holy hermits to spend the nights with them in tears and singing the divine praises, prostrate on the ground.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0214.htm   (3673 words)

  
 Prologue: hagiographies of the saints
Saint Eustratius was a Roman counsellor of ducal rank at the city of Satala, Eugene was his companion soldier, Orestes was also a renowned soldier, Auxentius was a priest while Mardarius was common citizen and a fellow citizen of Eustratius, for they both came from the city of Arauraka.
Governors Lysias and Agricola first put Auxentius to the torture as a priest.
Auxentius was killed by the sward, Eugene and Mardarius ended their lives in torments, Orestes gave up his soul stretched on a red-hot iron bed, while Eustratius in blazing furnace.
www.mpc.org.mk /English/Calendar/prologue.asp?id=2158   (287 words)

  
 Auxentius - Definitions from Dictionary.com
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 Writings of Ambrose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The heretic had forgotten the year before, when he had made the same appeal to Cæsar; and the Arians, in stirring up ill-will against the servants of Christ, are much worse than the Jews: for the Church does not belong to Cæsar, but displays the image of Christ.
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers." [3502] You see, then, that what he has introduced is against the Apostle's authority.
For that is not a baptism of men, but from heaven, which the angel of great counsel [3520] has brought to us, that we might be justified to God.
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 Selected Letters of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
Let no one, then, disturb you, because they have provided a carriage, or because hard words, as he thinks them, have been uttered by Auxentius, who calls himself bishop.
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers." You see, then, that what he has introduced is against the Apostle's authority.
For that is not a baptism of men, but from heaven, which the angel of great counsel has brought to us, that we might be justified to God.
www.ucalgary.ca /~vandersp/Courses/texts/sym-amb/ambrseep.html   (21373 words)

  
 Call_to_Sanity.htm
This was recorded in the transcript of the proceedings for that court case and is public record.
Though we are unworthy, we seek to preserve the confession of Faith of Metropolitan Philaret and Archbishop Auxentius.
The end result of all the attempts to explain the issues raised by those who left the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in recent months has been confusion and the revelation of heretical and disordered thinking in theology and the administration of the Mysteries of Christ in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
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 St. Auxentius - Catholic Online
Auxentius refused to take part in sacrifices before pagan gods and was persecuted for the faith.
Released from military service, he was ordained a priest.
Auxentius became the bishop of Mopsuestia, in Cilicia.
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CHAPTER I. THE synodical letter which follows was written after the accession of Damasus to the Roman see (366).
Whether it was written before any Western synod had formally condemned Auxentius of Milan (see Letter 59.
The occasion of the letter is two-fold: principally to counteract the efforts that were being made in the West, and especially in Africa (still later in the time of S. Augustine, see Coilat.
biblestudy.churches.net /CCEL/FATHERS/NPNF204/ATHANASI/AFRICA/T241.HTM   (829 words)

  
 [2001: March] Auxentius of Durostorum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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I find that he was the adopted son of Wulfilas, Arian apostle of the Goths,
"Auxentius, Junior, originally Mercurinus, a Scythian, and a disciple of Ulfilas, or Wulfila, of whose life and death he wrote an account that the Arian bishop, Maximinus, included (383) in a work directed against St.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Auxentius, Junior
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Auxentius, Junior, originally Mercurinus, a Scythian, and a disciple of Ulfilas, or Wulfila, of whose life and death he wrote an account that the Arian bishop, Maximinus, included (383) in a work directed against St. Ambrose and the Synod of Aquitesa, 381.
This favourite of Justina was the anti-bishop set up in Milan by the Arians on the occasion of the election of Ambrose.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02144c.htm   (177 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Auxentius of Mopsuestia
Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > A > Auxentius of Mopsuestia (360)
Baronius places this bishop in the Roman martyrology, because of the story told by Philostorgius (in Suidas) that he was at one time an officer in the army of Licinius, and gave up his commission rather than obey the imperial command to lay a bunch of grapes at the feet of a statue of Bacchus.
Tillemont (Mémoires, VI, 786-7) is inclined to believe that Auxentius was an Arian; his patronage of the heretic Aetius (Philostorgius, Hist.
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