The acts of the synod of Elvira have a very great importance, because they allow us to clarify the characteristics of Spanish Christianity before the edict of Milan, characteristics on which the sad episode of Basilides of León and Martial of Mérida had already given a very good clue. significant. Alongside a part of the church perfectly aware of the duties incumbent on the Christian (the same severity of the…
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The origins of Christianity in Spain are shrouded in a profound mystery around which the legend was pleased to weave its plots by fabling, according to a tradition that does not bring us back beyond the century. VIII, the arrival in Spain of the apostle St. James, who would have arrived there around 40. The tradition of a Spanish journey of St. Paul who, writing to the Romans, actually announced…
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