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Macri

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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, southwest 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.

Bibliography Information
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Macri'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​m/macri.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
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