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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUSEBIUS (Gr. EuOi/3tos, from ebaegils, pious, cf. the Latin name See also:Pius)  , a name See also:borne by a large number of bishops and others in the See also:early ages of the See also:Christian See also:Church . Of these the most important. are separately noticed below . No less than 25 See also:saints of this name (sometimes corrupted into Eusoge, Euruge, Usoge, Usuge, Uruge and St Sebis) are venerated in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic Church, of whom 23 are included in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum; many are obscure martyrs, monks or anchorites, but two deserve at least a passing See also:notice . EusEBlus, See also:bishop of See also:Vercelli (d . 371), is notable not only as a stout opponent of Arianism, but also as having been, with St See also:Augustine, the first Western bishop to unite with his See also:clergy in adopting a strict monastic See also:life after the Eastern See also:model (see See also:Ambrose, Ep . 63 ad Vercellenses, § 66) . The See also:legend that he was stoned to See also:death by the Arians was probably invented for the edification of the Orthodox .

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