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Macri
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(or MACRAS?)
A titular see in Mauretania Sitifiensis. 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 (Algeria). In 411 Macri had a Donatist bishop, Maximus, who attended the Carthage Conference. In 479 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.
Sources
TOULOTTE, Géographie de l’Afrique chrétienne: Mauretanie (Montreuil-sur-mer, 1894), p. 212.
Source Record
- Author
- Pétridès, Sophrone
- Publication
- The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1910.
- Nihil Obstat
- Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor.
- Imprimatur
- Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.