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Uninfluenced by Rome, Citania was also untouched by Christianity, though it may have been inhabited after St. James if indeed he ever preached in Bracara Augusta, now Braga and his disciple São Pedro de Rates had begun their mission. But if Citania knew nothing of Christianity there still remains one remarkable monument of the native religion.
The sack of Rome by the Goths was followed by the successful inroads of other barbaric tribes. The Suevi, the Alans, and the Vandals invaded Spain, which for four hundred years had been prosperous in all the arts of peace. The great cities of Corduba, Merida, Seville, Bracara, and Barcelona, testified to her wealth and luxury, while science and commerce both elevated and enfeebled the people.
The footsteps of the Barbarians, who, in the reign of Gallienus, had penetrated beyond the Pyrenees, were soon obliterated by the return of peace; and in the fourth century of the Christian æra, the cities of Emerita, or Merida, of Corduba, Seville, Bracara, and Tarragona, were numbered with the most illustrious of the Roman world.
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