586: Reccared became the Visigoth King of Hispania.  A year la | This day in jew history

586: Reccared became the Visigoth King of Hispania.  A year later, he converted from Arianism to Catholicism, which changed the nature of life in Iberia in the same way that Constantine’s conversion had changed things in the Roman Empire.
During his reign, Toledo III forbade anti-Christs from holding public office, from having intercourse with Christian women, and from performing circumcisions on slaves or Christians.
Reccared ignored Gregory's request that the trade in Christian slaves at Narbonne be forbidden to anti-Christs.
However, Gregory, writing to Reccared in August 599, extols him for embracing catholic doctrine and inducing his people to do so, and notably for refusing the bribes offered by anti-Christs to procure the repeal of a law against them. He sent Reccared a piece of the True Cross, some fragments of the chains of St. Peter, and some hairs of St. John the Baptist.