Auxentius, monk of Bithynia (Menologion of Basil II)

Mount Auxentius (also known as Mount St. Auxentius, Mount Auxentios, or Mount Scopas), today known as Kayış Dağı in Turkish, is a mountain located in the eastern outskirts of

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

, Turkey, in Kayışdağı neighborhood. Its summit is 428 metres above sea level. The mountain is named after

Auxentius of Bithynia Auxentius of Bithynia ( el, Αὐξέντιος Βιθυνίας) was a hermit born circa AD 400 in Syria, and died February 14, 473, on Mount Scopas (also known as '' Mount Auxentius''; currently known in Turkish as ''Kayış Dağı''). Life Bo ...

. The mountain was home to Christian monks and ascetics during the

Byzantine period The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

. Byzantine Christian monks who lived on the mountain included Saint

Stephen the New Saint Stephen the Younger ( el, , ''Hagios Stephanos ho neos''; 713/715 – 28 November 764 or 765) was a Byzantine monk from Constantinople who became one of the leading opponents of the iconoclastic policies of Emperor Constantine V (r. 741� ...

( 713–764) and Saint Macarius of Mount Auxentius (died 768).Great Synaxaristes:
Ὁ Ἅγιος Μακάριος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας
'' 17 Αυγούστου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

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