Auxentius of Bithynia

Auxentius of Bithynia was a hermit born circa 400 AD in Syria, and died February 14, 473 on Mount Scopas. 
Auxentius was in the Equestrian Guard of Roman Emperor Theodosius II, but left to become a solitary monk on Mount Oxia near Constantinople. He was accused of heresy but was exonerated at the Council of Chalcedon. Afterward he returned to his hermitage atop Mount Scopas, in Bithynia, not far from Chalcedon. 
He is not to be confused with Saint Auxentius of Mopsuestia (d. 360), bishop and martyr, and an Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint, Auxentius of Milan (d. 374), bishop of Milan, or Auxentius of Durostorum.
Auxentius of Bithynia is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Byzantine Catholic, and Roman Catholic Churches. His feast day is February 14.
==References==
*Patron Saints Index at Catholic Forum
== See also ==
*Christian monasticism
*Stylites
*Poustinia
Category:400 births
Category:473 deaths
Category:Byzantine saints
Category:Syrian saints
Category:Saints from Anatolia
Category:Syrian hermits
Category:Eastern Orthodox saints
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Category:Syrian Roman Catholic saints
Category:Greek saints
Category:Greek Roman Catholic saints
Category:Anatolian Roman Catholic saints
Category:5th-century Byzantine people
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