A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

was born towards the middle of the fourth century at Tagaste, the native place of St. Augustin, with whom he maintained throughout life the closest friendship. After following in youth the secular profession of an ayens in rebus, about the year A. D. 396 or 397, he became bishop of Uzalis, a town not far from Utica, where he performed, we are told by St. Augustin, many miracles by aid of some relics of St. Stephen the Protomartyr, left with him by Orosius, who brought them from Palestine in 416. Evodius took an active part in the controversies against the Donatists and the Pelagians, and in 427, wrote a letter to the monks of Adrumetum, with regard to some differences which had arisen in their body on these questions. After this period we find no trace of him in history, but the precise date of his death is not known.

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