Henchir-El-Meden Explained

Henchir-El-Meden is a locality and archaeological site in Tunisia.

History

During antiquity The city was a municipium of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis called Municipium Auralia Vina.^[1] The ruins include an amphitheatre dedicated to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.^[2]

During the Byzantine and Roman Empires Vina was also the seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Carthage.^[3] Four bishops are attributable to Vina.^[4]

• Faustino participated in the Cabarsussi Council, held in 393 by Maximianus, a dissident sect of the Donatists, and signed the Acts of that council.
• At the Council of Carthage (411), the Catholic Vittore attended. The town had no Donatist as Faustino had died five years earlier (406).
• Cresconio attended the Council of Carthage (525) and
• Fruttuoso the anti-Monothelitism Council of Carthage (646).
• Vina survives today as a titular bishopric^{[5] [6]} and the current bishop is Anton Jamnik, of Ljubljana.

Notes and References

1. [Victor Guérin]
2. Frank Sear, Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study (OUP Oxford, 20 July 2006) p290.
3. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1972.htm Titular Episcopal See of Vina
4. Web site: K8 Casino: Top of world Crypto Gambling .
5. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 102–103.
6. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 110.