Acacius of Beroea

Who they were

Acacius was born in Syria about 322 and as a young man became a monk near Antioch. He championed orthodoxy in the Arian troubles and suffered for it, and about 378 was made Bishop of Beroea.

He went to Rome for the Antiochene bishops on the question of Apollinaris and signed the profession of faith in the two natures of Christ, and took part in the Council of Constantinople in 381. The Catholic Encyclopedia notes that he later took part in the irregular consecration of Flavian of Antioch.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

A monk-bishop who suffered for the Nicene faith in the Arian crisis.

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