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The religious world of Carthage divided itself broadly into two sections, the moderate and rigoristic parties, or the supporters and opponents of the principles of Caecilianus. At the head of the latter was a devout and wealthy woman named Lucilla, who had been severely rebuked by the archdeacon for superstitious veneration of martyrs' relics .
The ancient descriptions were seemingly confirmed by the discovering of the so-called "Tophet of Salammbô" in Carthage in 1921, which contained the urns of cremated children. [81] However, modern historians and archaeologists debate the reality and extent of this practice.
A female bust, possibly depicting Lucilla, 160-180 AD. Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (7 March 148 or 150 – 182) was the second daughter of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman empress Faustina the Younger. She was the wife of her father's co-ruler and adoptive brother Lucius Verus and an elder sister to later emperor Commodus.
The Punic religion was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion. At Carthage, the chief gods were Baal Hammon (purportedly "Lord of the Brazier") [16] and his consort Tanit, but other deities are attested, such as Eshmun, Melqart, [17] Ashtart, Reshef, Sakon, and Shamash. [18]
Ancient Carthage (/ ˈ k ɑːr θ ɪ dʒ / KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. ' New City ') was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. [3] Initially a settlement in present-day Tunisia, it later became a city-state, and then an empire.
He had been a reader or a lector [1] in the church at Carthage, during the time that Caecilianus had been an archdeacon and Mensurius was bishop. He seems to have also had some domestic office in the household of a Roman noblewoman Lucilla. In 311 Majorinus was chosen as bishop of Carthage by a council of 70 bishops in Cirta led by Secundus of ...
Carthage retrouvée (in French). Cérès Editions. ISBN 9973-19-055-6. Ennabli, Liliane (1997). Carthage, une métropole chrétienne du ive à la fin du viie siècle (in French). Centre national de la recherche scientifique. ISBN 2-271-05402-8. Ennabli, Liliane (2000). Carthage chrétienne (in French). Agence de mise en valeur du patrimoine et ...
Early Christian quarter in ancient Carthage.. The delimitation of the ecclesiastical boundaries of the African Church is a matter of great difficulty. Again and again the Roman political authority rearranged the provincial divisions, and on various occasions the ecclesiastical authorities conformed the limits of their respective jurisdictions to those of the civil power.