This prince, seduced by a passion for his mother-in-law, deserted, for some time, the Christian faith, which permitted not these incestuous marriages: his whole people immediately returned with him to idolatry.

Laurentius, the successor of Augustine found the Christian worship wholly abandoned, and was prepared to return to France, in order to escape the mortification of preaching the gospel without fruit to the infidels.
[* Bede lib.i.cap.30.Spell.

Concil.p.

89.
Greg.Epist.lib.ix.epist.

71.] [** Chron.Sax.p.