Victor of Vita

   Bishop of Vita in North Africa (q.v.) who wrote a history (ca. 489) of the cruel persecution of the Orthodox population by the Vandals (q.v.) during the reigns of Gaiseric (q.v.), Huneric, and Gunthamund. He wrote his work (in Latin, entitled Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae) from exile near Tripoli (q.v.). While dealing chiefly with the Orthodox church, the work is also valuable as a contemporary account of fifth-century North Africa.