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C(aius) Iul(ius) Castus, grado sacerdoti legis

sacrae secundus, C(aii) Iul(ii) Honorii filius

iam LVIIII annos agens hoc sibi in animum

deliberavit ut incolumis et in rebus huma

nis agens hanc suae memoriae sedem

perpetuam constituere a(nno) p(rovinciae) CCCXXII.

Cellam martyrum vocavit Luciani et Lucillae.

Dep(ositus) VI kal(endas) sep(tembres)

Caius Iulius Castus, of the second grade among

the priests of the holy law, the son of Caius Iulius Honorius,

having already lived for 59 years, took this decision,

while he was in good health and participating in the human activities,

to construct the place of his eternal memory, in the year of the province 322 [AD 361].

He dedicated the cella [chapel] for the martyrs Lucianus and Lucilla. He was deposed on the 6th day before the Kalends of September [27 August].

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

We do not know exactly when Castus died; it was not necessarily in the same year that he made the inscription.

There is no indication what was the denomination of Castus (Catholic or Donatist).

Place of event:

Region

Latin North Africa

City

Koudiat Adjala

About the source:

Origin: Koudiat Adjala (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian, Donatist

The inscription, coming from the ruins of Koudiat Adjala in Mauretania Sitifensis, is now incorporated into a wall in a small village Lareis in Algeria. It is on limestone and has the dimensions of 134 × 48 cm.

Edition:

Carletti, C., Epigrafia dei cristiani in Occidente dal III al VII secolo. Ideologia e prassi (Bari: Edipuglia, 2008), 301, no. 200.

Duval, Y., Loca sanctorum Africae: Le culte des martyrs en Afrique du IVe au VIIe siècle (Rome: École Francaise de Rome, 1982), vol. 1, no. 156, 328-330.

Categories:

Burial/Funerary inscription

PR975.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR975.

Age

PR975.

Devotion - Veneration of saints and relics

PR975.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2141, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2141