Autonomus
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- "Autonomus" is a frequent misspelling of "autonomous".
Saint Autonomus (died 313) is a martyr
Martyr
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saint
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. He is said to have been an Italian
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bishop who escaped the persecution of Diocletian by migrating to Bithynia
Bithynia
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in Asia Minor
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. He evangelized
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the region, served as first bishop of Bolu
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(Bithnynium), and was subsequently martyred.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church
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, his feast day is celebrated on September 12.
Further reading
- Clive Foss, "St. Autonomus and His Church in Bithynia," Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 41, Studies on Art and Archeology in Honor of Ernst Kitzinger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (1987), pp. 187–198.