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Updated: May 31, 2025
This Maximus now interfered to defend him against the parties whom he had on a former occasion defended against Maximus; but other and more remarkable occurrences interposed in his behalf, which shall be mentioned in the next section. The Arian bishop, who had lately come from the East to Milan, had taken the name of Auxentius, the heretical predecessor of Ambrose. Ambrose and the Martyrs.
"To the most gracious Emperor and most happy Augustus Valentinian, Ambrosius Bishop, "Dalmatius, tribune and notary, has come to me, at your Majesty's desire, as he assures me, to require me to choose umpires, as Auxentius has done on his part.
The Arian heresy was then at the zenith of its power, and was at least secretly, and often openly, favored by the imperial authority. In few places was it more openly defiant than at Milan. Auxentius, the Arian bishop of that see, died in the year 374, and a serious tumult was raised during the election of his successor the Arians and the orthodox Christians each contending for the mastery.
He raises vegetables, and they and snow-water seeping through a crevice in his cavern subsist him.... And the next him the large man with the great coat of camel's hair which keeps him scratched as with thorns he is from the Monastery of St. Auxentius, the abode of a powerful fraternity of ascetics. A large proportion of this wing of the celebrants is of the same austere house.
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