New Martyr Auxentius of Constantinople

Auxentius of Constantinople was a Greek new martyr of the early eighteenth century. He is commemorated on January 25.

By the accounts he was born in 1690 in the diocese of Vellas, in the Greek lands, and came with his parents to Constantinople, where he worked as a furrier. In time he left his trade to work on the ships, and for a period he led a careless and sinful life.

He was afterward falsely accused of having embraced Islam. Brought before the Turkish authorities, he refused to deny Christ and confessed the Christian faith, and for this confession he was beheaded in the year 1720.