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Hieromartyr

Auxentius

Martyr of Caesarea Maritima

A cleric and martyr at Caesarea Maritima, killed around 307, remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church.

Feast
November 5old style November 18
Reposed
3074th century
Place
Caesarea Maritima
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Auxentius was an elderly priest of Caesarea in Palestine, given to the beasts and martyred around the year 307, in the time of the persecution.

The sources keep only these facts about him. His commemoration is kept on 5 November in the Western calendar. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day November 5