Aquae Sirenses Aquae Sirenses Aquae Sirenses (Acque Sirensi), also known as Aquaesirensis, is an ancient Roman colonia and a modern titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in Algeria. The name means Sirens Water, and was a bath town. The ruins of this ancient city are located near the thermal baths of Hammam Bou Hani. There are two known bishops of this ancient diocese. "Honoratus" who represented the Donatists at the Council of Carthage (411). The grave of his sister Robba, revered as a martyr by the Donatists, was found in Ala Miliaria recently. The other Bishop, Felix was among the Catholic
Celtic animism foci for healing cults: Sulis was prayed to as a healer at Aquae Sulis and the goddess Arnemetia was hailed as a healer at Aquae Arnemetiae. Nemausus, for example, was not only the Gallic name for the town of Nîmes but also that of its presiding spring-god. He had a set of three female counterparts, the Nemausicae. In the same region, the town of Glanum possessed a god called Glanis: an altar from a sacred spring is inscribed 'to Glanis and the Glanicae'. Meteorological patterns and phenomena, especially wind, rain and thunder, were acknowledged as inspirited and propitiated. Inscribed dedications