[5] Dozy (2), tome ii. pp. 45–6. [↑]
[6] A. Müller, vol. ii. p. 463. [↑]
[7] Dozy (2), tome ii. pp. 44–6. [↑]
[8] So St. Boniface (A.D. 745, Epist. lxii.). “Sicut aliis gentibus Hispaniæ et Provinciæ et Burgundionum populis contigit, quæ sic a Deo recedentes fornicatæ sunt, donec index omnipotens talium criminum ultrices pœnas per ignorantiam legis Dei et per Saracenos venire et sævire permisit.” (Migne: Patr. Lat., tom. lxxxix. p. 761.) Eulogius: lib. i. § 30. “In cuius (i.e. gentis Saracenicæ) ditione nostro compellente facinore sceptrum Hispaniæ translatum est.” (Migne: Patr. Lat., tom. cxv. p. 761.) Similarly Alvar (2), § 18. “Et probare nostro vitio inlatum intentabo flagellum. Nostra hæc, fratres, nostra desidia peperit mala, nostra impuritas, nostra levitas, nostra morum obscœnitas … unde tradidit nos Dominus qui institiam diligit, et cuius vultus æquitatem decernit, ipsi bestiæ conrodendos” (pp. 531–2). [↑]
[9] Dozy (3), tome i. pp. 15–20. Whishaw, pp. 38, 44. [↑]
[10] Samson, pp. 377–8, 381. [↑]
[11] Dozy (2), tome ii. p. 210. [↑]
[12] Bishop Egila, who was sent to Southern Spain by Pope Hadrian I, towards the end of the eighth century, on a mission to counteract the growing influence of Muslim thought, denounces the Spanish priests who lived in concubinage with married women. (Helfferich, p. 83.) [↑]
[13] Alvari Cordubensis, Epist. xix. “Ob meritum æternæ retributionis devovi me sedulum in lege Domini consistere.” (Migne: Patr. Lat., tom. cxxi. p. 512.) [↑]