- M'Daourouch
M'Daourouch is a municipality in Souk Ahras Province,
Algeria , occupying the site of the former Roman town of Madauras, Madaure, orMadaura (see also for homonyms) which is now a Roman Catholictitular see in the formerRoman province ofNumidia .Demographics
As of the
1998 census, M'Daourouch has 24.919 inhabitants, which gives it 11 seats in the PMA.m'daourouch is areally beuatiful city, it's the city of the catholic saint augustine,History
It was an old Numidian town which, having once belonged to the Kingdom of
Syphax , was annexed to that ofMassinissa at the close of thesecond Punic War . It became aRoman colony about the end of the first century and was famous for its schools. It was the native town ofApuleius , author of "The Golden Ass ", and of thegrammarian sNonius Marcellus and Maximus. St. Augustine studied there; through a letter which he addressed later to the inhabitants we learn that many were still pagans. Madaurus had many martyrs known by their epitaphs; several are named in the Roman Catholicmartyrology on4 July . Three bishops are known: Antigonus, who attended the council of Carthage, 349; Placentius, the council of 407 and the Conference of 411; Pudentius, sent into exile by the Vandal kingHuneric with the other bishops who had been present at the Conference of 484. The ruins of Madaurus are seen near M'Daouroch, under French colonial rule in thedepartment of Constantine (inAlgeria ). A fine Romanmausoleum , vast baths, a Byzantine fortress, a Christianbasilica are noteworthy and have furnished several Christian inscriptions.References
External links
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09512a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article]
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