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THIGNICA

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A titular see in Numidia. The Roman Curia's official list of titular sees places
Thignica in Numidia. It belonged to Proconsular Africa. Its ruins are called Ain
Tounga, southwest of Testour, Tunisia. They are very extensive and cover the
summit and slopes of a series of hills. One inscription calls it "Civitas
Thignicensis" and states that it was divided into three parts, another that it
became a municipium at the beginning of the third century under the name of
"municipium Septimium Aurelium Antoninianum Herculeum Frugiferum Thignica".
Towards the centre of the ruins is a Byzantine fortress, trapezoidal in shape,
flanked by five square towers. Here an inscription makes mention of the
proconsul Domitius Zenophilus (326-32), famous in the annals of Christian
Africa. Among the other ruins are a small triumphal arch, a temple, a Christian
church, the remains of the enclosure, etc. Despite the splendour and importance
of this town we know only one bishop, Aufidius, who assisted in 411 at the
Conference of Carthage where he had a Donatist rival.


SOURCES

TOULOTTE, Geographie de l'Afrique chretienne. Proconsulaire (Paris, 1892),
269-271; DIEHL, L'Afrique byzantine (Paris, 1896), passim.


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APA citation. Pétridès, S. (1912). Thignica. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New
York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14636a.htm

MLA citation. Pétridès, Sophrone. "Thignica." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14636a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Thomas M. Barrett.
Dedicated to the Poor Souls in Purgatory.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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