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Atitular see of Numidia. In Ptolemy's "Geography", IV, iii, 7, the city is mentioned under the name of Mileum or Mireon. During the Roman era it was called Colonia Sarnensis Milevitana, after the River Sarnus in Campania, whence the colonists hademigrated. This name is often found in theinscriptions of the city. Together with Cirta, Collo, and Rusicade, Milevum formed the confederation known as the Four Colonies, the territory of which was very extensive. In the sixth century theEmperor Justinian had Milevum enclosed by a fortified wall, which still stands and forms a rampart for theArabian city of Milah (Diehl, "L'Afrique byzantine", Paris, 1896, 603 sq.). Two councils were held at Milevum, one in 402 and the other in 416; the secondappealed toPope Innocent I for the repression of thePelagian heresy. Among thebishops of thistitular see were Pollianus, present at theCouncil of Carthage in 255 andmartyred two years later;St. Optatus, noted for his work against theDonatists, died circa 385, and commemorated on 4 June; Honorius; Severus, fellow-countryman and friend of St. Augustine Benenanus (484); Restitutus, who attended theFifth Œcumenical Council in 553. Milevum, now Milah, is a city in the department of Constantine in Algeria, with 8000 inhabitants, 400 of whom areEuropeans. We have quite a number of Latin inscriptions from this city and a colossalstatue of Saturn.
TOULOTTE,Géographiede de l'Afrique chrétienne: Numidie (Paris, 1894), 222-27
APA citation.Vailhé, S.(1911).Milevum. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10304b.htm
MLA citation.Vailhé, Siméon."Milevum."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 10.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1911.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10304b.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter.Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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