THUBURBO MINUS. - Ancient diocese in proconsular Africa, today Tebourba in Tunisia; it is now a titular see.

In 411 Victor was bishop; but it may be that the names of the bishops are confused with those of Thuburbo maius; likewise one cannot determine with certainty whether the group of the martyrs Maxima, Donatilla and Secunda, commemorated in the Calendar of Carthage on July 30, belongs to Thuburbo maius or to T. m.: "III Kal. aug. sanctarum Thuburbinarum et Septimiae"; while the Hieronymian Martyrology on the same date indicates: "In Africa Lucernariae Maximae Secundae Donatillae". The three martyrs also appear in the "Passio Crispinae" of Tebessa (BHL, 1989). At Tichilla, present-day Testour, situated in the same valley of the Bagradas as T. m., in the great mosque, the inscription was found: "Sanctae tres Maximilla et Donatilla, Secunda bona puella Stefanus" (P. Monceaux, Enquête sur l'épigr. chrét. d'Afrique, Paris 1907, p. 38, n. 245); the same martyrs are also named in the "memoria" set up by Faustinus bishop of Tebessa and found in 1906 at Rouis (ibid., pp. 176-79, n. 337). In honor of the martyrs St. Augustine delivered a sermon (Sermo habitus in natale martyrum Thuburbitanorum, in Misc. Agostin., I, Rome 1930, pp. 201-209).

Bibliography

BIBL.: P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, Della Passio ss. Maximae, Donatillae et Secundae, in Note agiogr., 8 (Studi e testi, 65), Città del Vatic. 1935, pp. 73-97.

Enrico Josi

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