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The Third Council of Toledo as painted by José Martí y Monsó in 1862 (Museo del Prado).Image: José Martí y Monsó · Public domainculture · Europe
The Visigoths turn Catholic at the Third Council of Toledo
On 8 May 589 King Reccared of the Visigoths opened a church council at Toledo, the capital of his kingdom in Spain. Before some 72 bishops, with Leander of Seville presiding, he publicly gave up the Arian form of Christianity his people had followed and professed the Catholic creed, calling on Arian bishops and nobles to do the same. The council marked the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church and bound church and crown closely together.
Source: Konziliengeschichte (council history lexicon): Toledo III ↗
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