Junior Auxentius
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Junior Auxentius, originally Mercurinus, from Scythia, was an Arian disciple of Ulfilas.
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. [1]
[edit] Sources
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
- Auxentius, Junior at Catholic Encyclopedia
[edit] References
- ^ Baunard, Saint Ambroise, Paris, 1872, 332-348; Hefele, History of the Councils, I
