Auxentius of Durostorum

Auxentius of Durostorum

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Auxentius of Durostorum and Milan aka Mercurinus was the foster-son of Ulfilas (Wulfila), the "apostle to the Goths." Ulfilas translated the Gothic Bible and converted the Goths to Arian Christianity. Auxentius was a deacon in AlexandriaFact|date=July 2007 and a follower of the Arian bishop Dionysius of Milan.Fact|date=July 2007

Biography

In Milan, seat of the Western Imperial court, Nicene and Arian controversy flared high. In 386, Auxentius challenged Ambrose to a public disputation, in which the judges were to be the court favourites of the Arian empress; he also demanded for the Arians the use of the Basilica Portiana. Ambrose's refusal to surrender this church brought about a siege of the edifice, in which Ambrose and a multitude of his faithful Milanese had shut themselves up. The empress eventually abandoned her favourite and made peace with Ambrose.

The "Letter of Auxentius" (ca 400) was preserved in the margins of a manuscript of "De fide" of Ambrose. 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.

He wrote an account of the life and death of Ulfilas that the Arian bishop Maximinus included (383) in a work directed against St. Ambrose and the Synod of Aquitesa, 381. This favourite of Empress Justina was the anti-bishop set up in Milan by the Arians on the occasion of the election of Ambrose. He challenged the latter in 386 to a public dispute in which the judges were to be the court favourites of the Arian empress; he also demanded for the Arians the use of the Basilica Portiana. The refusal to surrender this church brought about a siege of the edifice, in which Ambrose and a multitude of his faithful Milanese had shut themselves up. The empress eventually abandoned her favourite and made peace with Ambrose. [Baunard, "Saint Ambroise", Paris, 1872, 332-348; Hefele, "History of the Councils", I]

External links

* [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/auxentius.trans.html The letter of Auxentius] : Jim Marchand, translator (link to Latin text)
* Ambrose: Sermon against Auxentius, [http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-10/Npnf2-10-50.htm "On the giving up of the basilicas"] .

Sources

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* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02144c.htm Auxentius, Junior] at Catholic Encyclopedia

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