[48] The Sueves entered Spain in 411 and Galicia in 411. See Esp. Sagrada, vol. iv.
[49] See Bosworth and Florez.
[50] King Alfred’s Orosius, bk. v. ch. xii.
[51] About five years before the birth of Idatius.
[52] “Two great interests then moved the hearts of Christians, led them from their homes, and threw them into the midst of the difficulties, perils, and tediousness, now incomprehensible, of a journey to the East. They would kiss the footsteps of the Lord Jesus upon the very soil where He encountered life and death for our salvation; they would also survey and see with their own eyes those deserts, caverns, and rocks where still lived the men who seemed to reach nearest to Christ by their supernatural austerity, and their brave obedience to the most difficult precepts of the Saviour” (Montalembert).
[53] “The learned librarian of a lay-brotherhood established in that place.” See Preface to Bernard’s translation.
[54] Published by the Imperial Academy of Vienna, in vol. xxxix. of Corpus Sculptorum Ecclesiasticorum Laborum.
[55] Since published separately, with a facsimile of the opening page of the manuscript. Translated by J. H. Bernard, B.D., Palestine Pilgrims Text Society.
[56] See Bernard’s translation.
[57] Férotin.