With the support of the Goths of Sicily, Belisario landed in Africa with an army not large in number, but which soon found aid among the indigenous population. Gelimer, who had sent the best part of his army against the Sardinables, was defeated and taken prisoner. The Vandal resistance collapsed, so that by 536 the region had returned to the Empire, and with the state there also disappeared the name of the V., who from the decadent Roman civilization had known only deficiencies and vices.
VANDELBERTO of PRÜM. - Monk of Prüm and deacon, b. c. 1813, d. after 1870.
He is credited with one of the oldest known martyrologies, composed c. 1848 in Latin hexameters, written at the request of the learned Orticus, when V. was in Cologne. It is a compilation made from martyrological texts (especially the recension of Florus) sent to him by Florus of Lyon, with whom he maintained constant correspondence. Later, he published an Horologium or notes on the knowledge of time, the seasons, days and months of the year and the origin of their names. He also wrote in 839 a life of St. Goar, hermit and confessor, the Hexameron, a poem on the creation of the world, and some poems.