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Anianus
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or ST., the successor of St. Mark in the patriarchate OF ALEXANDRIA, was a shoemaker whom Mark is said to have converted soon after his entrance into the city, and whom he is said to have established on the episcopal chair two years afterwards. St. Anianus governed the Church of Alexandria about twenty-two years — viz. four years under Mark, and eighteen years after his death. He is supposed to have died Nov. 26, A.D. 86; nevertheless, the Roman martyrology marks his festival April 25 — viz. on the festival of his master, St. Mark. See Baillet, April 25.
(called also Adroianus by Sozomen), presbyter OF ANTIOCH, was ordained bishop of that Church at the Council of Seleucia, A.D. 359, in the room of Eudoxius, who, together with Acacius and others, had been deposed. The Acacian party immediately arrested the newly made bishop, and delivered him into the hands of the civil authorities, by whom he was sent into exile. The subsequent fortunes of Anianus are unknown. Nicephorus gives four years to his episcopate, but his numbers are not to be trusted.
an EGYPTIAN monk who lived about the year A.D. 401. He composed a Chronology, in part agreeing with, and partly differing from, Eusebius. It is mentioned by Georgius Syncellus.
ST. (vulgarly called St. Agnan), bishop OF ORLEANS, was born in the 4th century at Vienne. on the Rhone. In his early youth he left his home and retired to a cell which he had built for himself, where he spent his time in reading, prayer, and mortification. After a time he left his solitude to place himself among the disciples of St. Euvertus, bishop of Orleans, whose great fame had reached him. By this bishop he was made priest and abbot of St. Laurent-des-Orgerils, in the vicinity of the city, and ultimately became his successor in the see. By his worth and merits he delivered the city of Orleans from the army of Attila, and died, it is said, soon after (Nov. 17, A.D. 453), having occupied the see sixty-two years. His festival is kept Nov. 17. The history of his life, which was extant iii the time of Gregory of Tours, is now lost. See Baillet, Nov. 17.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Anianus'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/anianus.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
