Flora and Maria--Their adventures--Trial--Meet Eulogius in prison--Their execution--Other martyrs--Hidden Christians--Aurelius, Sabigotha, etc--Plan for procuring martyrdom--Miracle in prison--Execution--Other martyrs--Death of Abdurrahman II.--Mohammed I.--Martyrs--Prodigy upon their execution--Outrage in a mosque--Punishment of offenders--Apprehension of king--Meditates a persecution--Even a massacre--Series of martyrdoms--Cloister of Tabanos suppressed--Columba, Pomposa--Abundius a true martyr--Others martyred--Censor of Cordova--Persecution and death of Ruderic--Eulogius--Parentage and antecedents--Opposes amalgamation of Arabs and Christians--Encourages learning of Latin--Imprisonment--Elected Bishop of Toledo--Again imprisoned--Trial--Execution--His relics 40-54 CHAPTER V. Doubtful martyrs--No persecution raging--The Muzarabes--Churches in Cordova--Arab description of a church--Monasteries outside the city--Voluntary martyrs, chiefly from Cordova--No ferment at Elvira--Enthusiasts not a large body--Their leaders--The moderate party--Objections against the martyrs--Voluntary martyrdoms forbidden by the Church--Answer of apologists--Evidence as to persecution--Apologists inconsistent--Eulogius and Alvar--Reviling of Mohammed--Martyrs worked no miracles--Defence of apologists illogical--Martyrs put to death not by idolaters--Death without torture--Their bodies corrupted--Moslem taunts--Effect of martyrdoms on the Moslems--Prohibition of relics--Traffic in relics--They work miracles--Relics taken from Spain to France--Expedition of monks for that purpose--St Vincent's body--Relics of George, Aurelius, etc., carried off--Return to France--Measures of the moderate party--Of the Moslems--Reccafredus--supported by the majority of Christians--Fanatics coerced--Anathematized--Action of king--Suspects political movement--Revolt at Toledo--Grand Council--Measures against zealots--Meditated persecution--The extreme party broken up--Apostasies--Reason of these--The exceptor Gomez--The decision of the Council--Cessation of martyrdoms 54-73 CHAPTER VI. National party--Revolt of Spaniards against Arabs--Martyrs in battle--Martyrdoms under Abdurrahman III.--Pelagius--Argentea--The monks of Cardena--Eugenia--No real persecution under the Great Khalif--General view of Christian Church in Spain under Abdurrahman II.--Civil position of Christians--Councils--Neglect of Latin--Arabic compulsory--Protests of Alvar, etc.--Latin forgotten--Cultivation of Moslem learning--Moslem theology--Church abuses--Simony--Breach of canons--Unworthy priests--Rival pastors--Heresy in the Church--Depravity of clergy--Their apostasy--Their deposition--Muzarabes--Free Christians in the North--The Church in the North--Its dangerous position--Cut short by Almanzor--Clergy oppress Christians--Count of Cordova--Ill-treats the Christians--Councils--Held by Elipandus--By Reccafredus--By Hostegesis--Jews and Moslems summoned--Council held by Basilius 73-86