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Idacius: Continuatio chronicorum hieronymianorum (+); bishop of Limica, Spain, 5th century CE
409 CE: "The Alans, the Vandals, and the Sueves entered Spain."
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Ildefonsus: (St. of Toledo), late 7c: De viris illustribus (On the Lives of Famous Men) (?) (!)
Archbishop of Toledo; died 23 January, 667. He was born of a distinguished family and was a nephew of St. Eugenius, his predecessor in the See of Toledo. At an early age, despite the determined opposition of his father, he embraced the monastic life in the monastery of Agli, near Toledo. While he was still a simple monk, he founded and endowed a monastery of nuns in Deibiensi villula. We learn from his writings that he was ordained a deacon (about 630) by Helladius, who had been his abbot and was afterwards elected Archbishop of Toledo. Ildephonsus himself became Abbot of Agli, and in this capacity was one of the signatories, in 653 and 655, at the Eighth and Ninth Councils of Toledo. Called by King Reccesvinth, towards the end of 657, to fill the archiepiscopal throne, he governed the Church of Toledo for a little more than nine years and was buried in the Basilica of Saint Leocadia.
The literary work of Ildephonsus is better known than the details of his life, and merits for him a distinguished place in the roll of Spanish writers.
…a little work which is certainly authentic, the "De viris illustribus". It may be considered as a supplement to the "De viris illustribus" of Isidore of Seville, and is not so much a literary historical work as a writing intended to glorify the Church of Toledo and defend the rights of the metropolitan see.
ALBERT PONCELET
Transcribed by Herman F. Holbrook
Sancte Ildephonse, ora Dei Genitricem pro nobis
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Isadore of Sevilla (late 7th century) Etymologiae sive Origines; Historia Sueborum Struggled against paganism in his archdiocese.
VIII, 11, stresses the human nature of the gods but he does not speak as harshly about them as Martin and Caesarius do.
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