amely, of Tyre, Damascus, Tripolis,
Aleppo, and Niocsia, in Cyprus. See Le Quien. Oriens Christianus. t.
3, p. 46.

ST. ABRAAMES, BISHOP OF CARRES.

HE was a holy solitary, who, going to preach to an idolatrous village on
Mount Libanus, overcame the persecutions of the heathens by meekness and
patience. When he had narrowly escaped death from their hands, he
borrowed money wherewith to satisfy the demands of the collectors of the
public taxes, for their failure in which respect they were to be cast
into prison; and by this charity he gained them all to Christ. After
instructing them for three years, he left them in the care of a holy
priest, and returned to his desert. He was some time after ordained
bishop of Canes, in Mesopotamia, which country he cleared of idolatry,
dissensions, and other vices. He joined the recollection and penance of
a monk with the labors of his functions, and died at Constantinople, in
422, having been sent for to court by Theodosius the Younger, and there
treated with the greatest honor on account of his sanctity. The emperor
kept one of his mean garments, and wore it himself on certain days, out
of respect. See Theodoret Philoth. c. 17, t. 3, p. 847.

ST. AUXENTIUS, H.

HE was a holy hermit in Bithynia, in the fifth age. In his youth he was
one of the equestrian guards of Theodosius the Younger, but this state
of life, which he discharged with the utmost fidelity to his prince, did
not hinder him from making the service of God his main concern. All his
spare time was spent in solitude and prayer; and he often visited holy
hermits, to spend the nights with them in tears and singing the divine
praises, prostrate on the ground. The fear of vain-glory moved him to
retire to the desert mountain of Oxen, in Bithynia, eight miles from
Constantinople. After the council of Chalcedon, where he appeared upon
summons by order of the emperor Marcian, against Eutyches, he chose a
cell on the mountain of Siope, near Chalcedon, in which he contributed
to the sanctification of many who resorted to him for advice; he
finished his martyrdom of penance, together {416} with his life, about
470. Sozomen commended exceedingly his sanctity while he was yet
living.[1] St. Stephen the Younger caused the church of his monastery to
be dedicated to God, under the invocation of our saint; and mount Siope
is called to this day mount St. Auxentius. See his life, written from
the relation of his disciple Vendimia