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One of the first to spread Manicheism in the Christian Orient. He was probably a Mesopotamian, and introduced the heresy into Eleutheropolis (Palestine). The Manichæans were sometimes called after him Acuanitae. St. Epiphanius (Against Heresies I.66.1) calls him a veteranus, i.e. an ex-soldier of the empire, and fixes his propaganda in the fourth year of the reign of Aurelian (273).

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COWELL, in Dict. of Christ. Biogr., I, 32.

Bibliography Information
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Acuas'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​a/acuas.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
 
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