Don Martin, the chaplain of the nuns, who stood behind his miserly protector, showed in his eyes the eager sympathy with which he heard Luna's words.
He described the Hispano-Roman people over whom the Gothic invasion swept, without, however, causing a gap, because before long the conquerors had succumbed to the lower Latin degeneration, remaining without strength, spending themselves in theological struggles and dynastic intrigues like those of Byzantium.

The regeneration of Spain did not come from the north with the hordes of barbarians, but from the south with the invading Arabs.

At first they were few, but they were sufficient to conquer Roderick and his corrupt courtiers.

The instinct of the Christian nationality revolting against the invaders, and the gathering together of the whole soul of Spain on the rocky heights of Covadonga to fall once more upon their conquerors, was all a lie.

The Spain of those days gratefully welcomed the people from Africa and submitted without resistance.