Because the majority of his diocese was pagan, Eligius undertook the conversion of the Flemings, Antwerpians, Frisians, Suevi, and the barbarian tribes along the coast. When the body of St ...

But these concerns for public health collapsed with the fall of the western Roman Empire around year 500 and their replacement by the Visigoths and Suevi as the new rulers of the peninsula. They did ...