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- ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", p. 898
- ↑ Francois Decret, Early Christianity in North Africa(James Clarke & Co, 2011) p122
- ↑ Saint Augustine, Letter 20* in Roland J. Teske, Boniface Ramsey (translators), Letters 211-270, 1*-29* (New City Press 2005 ISBN 978-1-56548209-8), pp. 299ff
- ↑ Neil B. McLynn, "Administrator: Augustine in His Diocese," in A Companion to Augustine, Mark Vessey, ed. (John Wiley & Sons 2013 ISBN 978-1-11825545-2), pp. 318-321
- ↑ Serge Lancel, Saint Augustine (Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd, 2002 ISBN 978-0-33402866-6), p. 257
- ↑ Siméon Vailhé, "Fussola" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1909)