• Source: Mount Auxentius

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, Turkey, in Kayışdağı neighborhood. Its summit is 428 metres above sea level. The mountain is named after Auxentius of Bithynia.
The mountain was home to Christian monks and ascetics during the Byzantine period. Byzantine Christian monks who lived on the mountain included Saint Stephen the New (c. 713–764) and Saint Macarius of Mount Auxentius (died 768).




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• Mount Auxentius
• Auxentius of Bithynia
• Arianism
• Spread of Christianity
• Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
• April 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Hilarion of Makariopolis
• Stephen the Younger
• June 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Christianity in the 4th century