Macri
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Macri, perhaps or Macras, is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Mauretania Sitifiensis.[1]
[edit] History
This town figures only in the "Notitia Africæ" and the "Itinerarium Antonini". It flourished for a long period, and Arabian authors often mention it in eulogistic terms. It was situated on the Oued-Magra which still bears its name, near the Djebel Magra, in the plain of Bou Megueur, south-west of Setif (in Algeria).
In 411 Macri had a Donatist bishop, Maximus, who attended the Carthage Conference. In 479 the Vandal king Huneric banished a great many Catholics from this town and from many other regions of the desert. In 484 Emeritus, Bishop of Macri, was one of the members present at the Carthage Assembly; like the others, he was banished by Huneric.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
