 Roman era Cyrenaica became a center of early Christianity.Some pre-Islamic Berbers were Christians (there is a strong correlation between membership of the Donatist doctrine and being Berber, ascribed to its matching their culture as well as their alienation from the dominant Roman culture of the Catholic church), some perhaps
Jewish, and some adhered to their traditional polytheist religion.The Roman era authors Apuleius and St. Augustine were born in Numidia.