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Macri

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

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Macri (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.

TOULOTTE, Géographie de lV’ Afrique chrétienne: Mauretanie (Montreuil-sur-mer, 1894), p. 212.

S. Pétridès.

Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907-1912. Public domain.

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