These five seventh-century religious texts cast light not only on the development of the church in Visigothic Spain and its internal politics but also on its relationship with the Visigothic state and the history of that state itself, particularly in the period when the Visigoths changed their adherence from Arian to Trinitarian Christianity. As the events they cover are not contemporary they also allow us to see how the Visigothic Church portrayed its own history and heroes.