Henchir-El-Meden
Henchir-El-Meden is a locality and archaeological site in Tunisia.
History
[edit]During antiquity The city was a municipium of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis called Municipium Auralia Vina.[1] The ruins include an amphitheatre dedicated to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.[2]
During the Byzantine and Roman Empires Vina was also the seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Carthage.[3] Four bishops are attributable to Vina.[4]
- Faustino participated in the Cabarsussi Council, held in 393 by Maximianus, a dissident sect of the Donatists, and signed the Acts of that council.
- At the Council of Carthage (411), the Catholic Vittore attended. The town had no Donatist as Faustino had died five years earlier (406).
- Cresconio attended the Council of Carthage (525) and
- Fruttuoso the anti-Monothelitism Council of Carthage (646).
- Vina survives today as a titular bishopric[5][6] and the current bishop is Anton Jamnik, of Ljubljana.
References
[edit]- ^ Victor Guérin, Voyage archéologique dans la Régence de Tunis (Рипол Классик, 1862) p267.
- ^ Frank Sear, Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study (OUP Oxford, 20 July 2006 ) p290.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Vina at GCatholic.org .
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- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 102–103.
- ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 110.