VICTOR OF CARTENNA: Christian author of the fifth century. The only source of information is Gennadius (De vir. ill., lxxvii.), supplemented by the Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africce (ed. M. Petschenig, in CSEL, vii.). According to these, he was bishop of Cartenna in Mauretania Cæsarea and was the author of s defense of orthodoxy against Arianism, a book on public penance, a "Consolation" to a certain Basil, and a collection of sermons. About 484 he seems to have been succeeded as bishop by Lucidus. Unfortunately all his writings have perished, and the attempts to ascribe to him the De pomitentia publicans sometimes included in earlier editions of Ambrose of Milan are valueless. The De pcenitentia has with more probability been ascribed to Victor of Tunnenna (q.v.)-, while the "Consolation" included in the works of Basil the Great is clearly not by Victor, since it contains absolutely no allusion to Basil.
Bibliography: Gennadius, De vir, ill., lxxviii., Eng. transl. in NPNF, 2d ser., iii. 398; F. Görres, in ZWT. 1906, pp. 484-494; Tillemont, Mémoires, xvi. 611-812; F. Papencordt, Geschichte der vandalischen Herrschaft in Africa, passim, Berlin, 1837; DCB, iv. 1122; SBA, 1861, pp.529-530; Ceillier, Auteurs sacrés, iv. 493, v. 512, x. 468-469.
VICTOR OF TUNNENNA: Bishop of Tunnenna (Tonnonna, Tonnenna, Tunna) in the province of Africa Proconsularis, and historian; d. probably at Byzantium after 565. The details of his life are known only from the fragment of his chronicle (MPL, Ixviii.; MC.H, Auct. ant., xi. 1 (1894), pp. 184-206). According to this, he was exiled, after many persecutions, to Alexandria in 555, whence he was taken, in 564, to Byzantium. He closes his history with the accession of Justin II. in 565, after which nothing is known concerning him. He was a determined opponent of the theology of Justinian and an advocate of the three chapters (see Three Chapter Controversy). His work, which was a continuation of the chrpnicles of Jerome and Prosper of Aquitaine, began with the creation, but only the portion from 444 to 565 (567) has survived. With all its historical, chronological, and theological limitations, his work is the only supplement to Jerome and Prosper which possesses human interest. Certain other works have been ascribed to this Victor, and there is a slender manuscript support for his authorship of the pseudo-Amhrosian De pa:nitentia Publicans (lVIPL, xvii. 1059-94),'earlier assigned to Victor of Cartenna (q.v.).
Bibliography: F. Papeneordt, Geschichte der vandalischen Herrschaft in AJrika, pp. 359-365, Berlin, 1837: Holder Egger, in NA, i (1878). 289 sqq.; T. Hodgkin, Invaders of Italy, vol. iii. passim, 4 vols., London, 1880-85; A. Ebert, Geschichte der chrisElich-laleinischen Literatur, i. 586, Leipsic, 1889; G. von Dzialowski, Isidor and Ildejaas ads Litecarhistoriker, pp. 82-64, Münster, 1898; Ceillier, Auteurs sacrés, v. 512, x. 489, xi. 302; DCB, iv. 1126; KL, aii. 909-911.
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