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Auxentius of Bithynia
hermit
SaintResearchedByzantine EmpirePre-congregation
Feast: 14 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
400
Died
473
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
On Mount Skopa in Bithynia, in present-day Turkey, Saint Auxentius, priest and archimandrite, who, living on a height as on a teacher's chair, defended the faith of Chalcedon with a powerful voice.
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
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 14 February as a priest and archimandrite who defended the faith of Chalcedon from a mountain height.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 14 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2630223 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Auxentius of Bithynia (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.