[3][4] The modern name translates to Castle of the Dog,[5] and was known in antiquity as Vegesela when it was a Roman Era Imperial estate[6] and a station on the African Limes[7] between Bagai and Theveste in Algeria [8] located at 35.37199,7.485505.
This left no doubt that at Ksar el Kelb the cult of the Donatist bishop and martyr Marculus of Thamugadi was practised.
The Church Building was a memorial to, and a burial for the Martyr Marculus, Identification is based on the finding of the memoria.
[13] an event that damaged relationships between Donatist and Roman Catholics till the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, 300 years later.
The event was still the basis of hostilities generations later and in many ways birthed the Donatist idea of resistance to the state.