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.
Auxentius of Mopsuestia
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VENABLES in Dict. of Christ. Biogr., I, 233.
APA citation. Shahan, T. (1907). Auxentius of Mopsuestia. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02144d.htm
MLA citation. Shahan, Thomas. "Auxentius of Mopsuestia." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02144d.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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