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Auxentius, Junior
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or Auxentius, Junior — originally Mercurinus, a Scythian, and a disciple of Ulfilas, or Wulfila, of whose life and death he wrote an account that the Arian bishop, Maximinus, included (383) in a work directed against St. Ambrose and the Synod of Aquitesa, 381. This favourite of 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).
VENABLES in Dict. of Christ. Biogr., I, 233.
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Auxentius, Junior'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/auxentius-junior.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
