Acuas
Acuas was an one of the first to spread Manicheism in the Christian Orient.
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Acuas, one of the first to spread Manicheism in the Christian Orient. He was probably a Mesopotamian, and introduced the heresy into Eleutheropolis (Palestine). The Manichieans were sometimes called after him Acuanitæ. St. Epiphanius (Adv. Hær., lxvi, 1) calls him a veteranus, i.e. an ex-soldier of the empire, and fixes his propaganda in the fourth year of the reign of Aurelian (273).[1]
Cowell, in Dict. of Christ. Biogr., I. 32.
References
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