Scillium
Location | Tunisia |
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Region | Kasserine Governorate |
Coordinates | 35°10′00″N 8°50′00″E / 35.166667°N 8.833333°E |
Scillium is an ancient city in the
History
On 17 July, 180, six martyrs (Scillitan Martyrs) suffered for the Faith at Scillium; later, a basilica in which St. Augustine preached[3] was dedicated to them (near Douar esh-Shott, west of the town). The Greek version of their Acts, in an addition which is later, says they were natives of "Ischle, Ischle, in Numidia". This name is a Greek transcription of Scillium. The tradition is already recorded in the primitive calendar of Carthage.[4] The Greek compiler intended possibly to speak not of the Province of Numidia, but of the Numidian country and so would have placed Scillium in Proconsular Numidia. An epitaph of Simitthu, now Chemtou, mentions Iscilitana; Simitthu was certainly in Proconsular Numidia, it is unclear if Scillium was near it.
Two of its bishops are mentioned: Squillacius, present at the
The town is mentioned in the seventh century by
Scillium was the native place of
Sources
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Scillium". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. [1]
Note
The above is taken from the entry "Scillium" by Sophrone Pétridès in the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1912.[8] Scilium is the spelling that appears in the 2013 edition of the Annuario Pontificio[9] and some other recent sources.[10] Other sources also report the Scilitan or Scillitan Martyrs not as six but as twelve and as having been tried and executed in Carthage.[11]
References
- ^ Gabriel Camps (2007). Les Berbères, Mémoires et Identité. p. 240.
- ^ "Annuaire pontifical catholique", Paris, 1910.
- ^ Victor Vitensis, Persecut. Vandal. I, 3, 9; August, Serm. 155, ed. Migne.
- ^ XVI K. Aug. ss. Scilitanorum (see Martyrolog. Hieronym.", ed. Duchesne and de Rossi, pp. lxx and 92.
- ^ "Descriptio orbis romani", 662, ed. Heinrich Gelzer, Leipzig, 1890, pp. 34, 106.
- ^ feast on 25 July; cf. Acta Sanctorum, July VI, 149.
- ^ feast on 1 August; cf. Acta SS., August, I, 22.
- ^ Sophrone Pétridès, "Scillium" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1912)
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 966
- ^ For example,| Daniel Bühler, "Die Jesus-Verschwörung" in Der Tagesspiegel, 7 December 2012
- ISBN 978-88-209-7210-3), p. 374