Scilliumis an ancient city in theRoman provinceofAfrica Proconsularis,Scillium must not be confounded withSilli,or Sililli, in Numidia, the situation of which is unknown[1]nor, as Albert Battandier does,[2]identified withKasrin,which is Cillium, a see of Byzantium. Itsepiscopal seewas asuffraganof the see ofCarthage,capital of the province.
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| Location | Tunisia |
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| Region | Kasserine Governorate |
| Coordinates | 35°10′00″N8°50′00″E/ 35.166667°N 8.833333°E |
History
editOn 17 July, 180, six martyrs (Scillitan Martyrs) suffered for the Faith at Scillium; later, abasilicain whichSt. Augustinepreached[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, nowChemtou,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 theConference of Carthage in 411;and Pariator, who signed the letter addressed in 646 by the council of the proconsulate to the Patriarch Paul of Constantinople against themonothelites.
The town is mentioned in the seventh century byGeorgius Cyprius[5]under the name ofSchele.
Scillium was the native place ofSt. Cucuphas,martyred atBarcelona,[6]and ofSt. Felix,martyred atGirona.[7]
Sources
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Scillium".Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.[1]
Note
editThe above is taken from the entry "Scillium" by Sophrone Pétridès in theCatholic Encyclopediaof 1912.[8]Sciliumis the spelling that appears in the 2013 edition of theAnnuario Pontificio[9]and some other recent sources.[10]Other sources also report the Scilitan orScillitan Martyrsnot as six but as twelve and as having been tried and executed in Carthage.[11]
References
edit- ^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" inCatholic Encyclopedia(New York 1912)
- ^Annuario Pontificio 2013(Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,ISBN978-88-209-9070-1), p. 966
- ^For example,| Daniel Bühler,"Die Jesus-Verschwörung"inDer Tagesspiegel,7 December 2012
- ^For example,Martyrologium Romanum(Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2000,ISBN978-88-209-7210-3), p. 374