Cenae (ancient)
Cenae was an ancient bishopric in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis in North Africa.
For the year 411 two bishops from Cenae are named as participants in a religious discussion in Carthage : a Donatist named Vindemius and a Catholic named Bonifacius. Later Cenae is once again in a hagiography of Bishop Fulgentius of Ruspe mentioned, at the end of his life in a monastery is said to have retreated to the island Cenae.
On the now uninhabited Tunisian archipelago of Kneiss , the remains of a monastery were found in the 1930s, which probably corresponds to the one Fulgentius visited. Recent studies have shown that the Kneiss archipelago, which today consists of several small islands due to a rise in the water level, probably formed a contiguous island in antiquity that could accommodate the monastery community.
Today the diocese lives on in the titular diocese of Cenae of the Roman Catholic Church.
literature
- J.-L. Feuille: Cena . In: Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques . Volume 12, Paris 1953, Col. 133-134.
- Pol Trousset : Kneiss . In: Encyclopédie berbère . Vol. 28-29, Edisud, Aix-en-Provence 2008, pp. 4251-4254.
- Hermann Dessau : Cenae . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Sp. 1898.
Remarks
- ↑ Coll. Carth. c. 129; 197 = Jacques Paul Migne , Patrologia Latina 11, 1297; 11, 1332.
- ^ Ferrandus , Vita Beati Fulgentii Pontifias 12.
- ↑ Pierre and J. Cintas: Le monastère de saint Fulgence , in: Revue tunisienne , Volume 43-44, 1940, pp. 243-250; G.-L. Feuille: Note sur le monastère des îles Kneiss , in: Revue tunisienne , 1942, pp. 251–255.
- ↑ Ameur Oueslati, Roland Paskoff, Hédi Slim, Pol Trousset: Les îles Kneiss et le monastère de Fulgence de Ruspe , in: Antiquités africaines , Volume 28, 1992, pp. 223-247.