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Auxentius of Mopsuestia

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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. Eccl., V, 1, 2), points to this conclusion.

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VENABLES in Dict. of Christ. Biogr., I, 233.

Bibliography Information
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Auxentius of Mopsuestia'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​a/auxentius-of-mopsuestia.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
 
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