AVEIA VESTINA. — Ancient city of Samnium, not far from Fossa. In the Roman Synod of 465, a Gaudentius, bishop aviciensis, appears; L. Duchesne rightly claims him for A. V., against the editors of that synod. It is plausible that the episcopal see of Forconium (called Cona or Furconium), today Civita di Bagno, which first appears in the Roman Synod of 680, succeeded A. V. after it had been destroyed and abandoned. Aquila (v.) subsequently succeeded that of Forconium. The very late legends of SS. Felice and Giusta; Eusanio and Grazia, his sister; and Massimo, bishop of A. V. or Forconium, are connected with A. V. and Forconium.
BIBL.: L. Duchesne, Les évêchés d’Italie et l’invasion lombarde, in Mélanges d’arch. et d’hist., 23 (1903), p. 99; F. Lanzoni, pp. 365-70. Benedetto Pesci