In 843 Rabanus also wrote a martyrology testifying to the murder of Aureus and his sister St Justina[1] on 16 June in a church during a Hun raid.

Tradition holds that the people of Mainz expelled him for opposing Arianism and that Theonistus and Alban carried on his work in his absence.

[3] His remains were either buried in the city's Basilica of St Alban immediately after his death or transferred there in 805.

[5][6] In 1022, relics of Aureus was transferred to Heilbad Heiligenstadt, where from the late Middle Ages he and the deacon Justinus were revered as patron saints of the town.

This was based on a different version of his legend, in which he and his deacon Justinus were fleeing Atilla the Hun, who caught up with them at Eichsfeld, where he tortured and beheaded them.