[5] Eulog., "Mem. Sanct.," ii. c. xiv.
[6] Robertson calls it a Conciliabulum.
[7] Eulog., "Mem. Sanct.," ii. § 2.
[8] "Militares pueros." Eulog. "Mem. Sanct.," iii. c. i.
[9] Eulog. "Mem. Sanct.," ii. c. xiv—"Tunc iam procul dubio enecandi nos difficultas fuit adempta, si quisquam vatis sui temerarius exprobator ultro occurreret." This seems to mean that Christians and Saracens were bound to give up to justice any who reviled the Prophet; or else to kill him on the spot.
[10] Eulog., "Doc. Mart.," sec. 18—"Moslemi ... omne regni sui, sicuti cernitis, genus excludere moliuntur Christicolarum."
[11] Eulog., "Mem. Sanct.," iii. c. iv.
In one of his works on this subject, Eulogius expresses a fear lest the intervention of the martyrs should bring disaster on the Church in Spain, just as the intervention of Moses in Egypt did much at first to aggravate the hardships of the Israelites.[1] He ought not, therefore, to have been surprised, when such a result actually did follow; nor ought he to complain that now the Moslems would only let the Christians observe their religion in such a way as they chose to dictate; and that the Christians were subjected to all sorts of taxes and exactions.[2]
These combined measures of repression, taken by the King and the Bishop of Seville, soon produced their effect. The extreme party were broken up, some escaping to quieter regions, others hiding, and only venturing abroad in disguise and at night—not, as Eulogius is careful to add, from fear of death, but because the high prize of martyrdom is not reserved for the unworthy many, but for the worthy few.[3]
[1] Ibid., ii. c. xvi.