Aulus Gratius Iuvenis

Aulus Gratius Iuvenis was a pater sacrorum of the Mithraic community at Bingium, modern Bingen am Rhein, Germany. As a Pater, he held the highest initiatory grade of the Mithraic mysteries and probably played a leading role in the local community.In AD 236, he and his brother Aulus Gratius Potens, a soldier of Legio XXII, dedicated an altar to the invincible god Mithras at their own expense (TNMM 519; CIL XIII 7083; CIMRM 1243).The inscription originally stated that the brothers had established an altar and a temple, aram et templum, but the reference to the temple was subsequently replaced by ex voto dei…