Spain

Aurelius Prudentius Clemens was born in 348 in Roman Spain, probably at Calahorra or Saragossa. He tells his own story in a short preface written when he was fifty-seven, and…

He was born Moses Sephardi, a Jew of Huesca in Aragon, in northern Spain, probably around 1076. He was a physician and an astronomer, trained in the Arabic learning that made…

Orosius was born about 375 in Roman Spain, probably at Braga in the northwest, and became a priest there. Around 414 he fled — his own account speaks of barbarian invasion, and…

Paschasius was a monk and deacon of the monastery at Dumium, near Braga in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, in the sixth century. He was born about 515 and died around 580. He…

Isidore was born about 560 in Cartagena, in southern Spain, into a family that had already been driven out of somewhere else. His parents died young. His older brother Leander…