TABARCA. — It is the ancient Thabraca in Proconsular Africa, a flourishing commercial port on the Mediterranean. It became a Roman municipium and later a colony under Antoninus Pius.
Christianity is attested by the bishop Victor, present at Carthage in 256 (P. Monceaux, *Histoire littéraire de l'Afrique chrétienne*, I, Paris 1901, pp. 2 ff.). Repeated explorations have revealed the importance of the Christian community. Victor of Vita reports that at the time of Gaiseric there were in T. a male and a female monastery (*Historia persecutionis vandalicae*, I, 10: PL 58, 193-95). A single-naved Christian basilica with a deep apse was discovered; to the left opened an octagonal baptistery, with apses inside and in the center a hexagonal baptismal font (P. Gauckler, *Basilique chrétiennes de Tunisie*, Paris 1913, pl. 16); behind it was found an extensive Christian cemetery with an imposing row of tombs decorated with mosaics, including one depicting the prophet Jonah resting under a vine. In an apsidal chapel, many sealed tombs were found, also adorned with mosaics, the most notable of which were transferred to the Bardo Museum in Tunis. Noteworthy here is the mosaic representing the interior of a Christian basilica in all its details and the inscription: *Ecclesia mater Valentia in pace*. Also notable is the inscription of the deacon Crescentinus, which reads:
TABARCA — TABEEL
Christi (ivi 1908), a lengthy commentary on questions 109–111 of the *Prima Secundae*. Father T., although he exonerated Rosmini from the charge of pantheism, saw in his conception of being a direct derivation from German philosophy, particularly from Krause’s pantheism (*De Deo Uno*, op. cit., p. 125). In the controversy over the efficacy of grace, especially impressed by the terminology of certain 17th-century Thomists, which he felt compromised human freedom, he inclined toward a mitigated form of congruism (*De Gratia*, op. cit., pp. 260 ff., 313 ff.) which, though not persuasive in strict Thomist terms, testifies to a sincere effort to reconcile the intrinsic efficacy of grace and render divine foreknowledge independent of any extrinsic object (acknowledged also by the Dominican *Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques*, 2 [1908], pp. 804 ff.).