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The Visigoths in Spain

In the late 6^th century, Visigoths driven south of the Pyreneans began converting from Arianism to Latin-Catholicism developed a form of Eucharistic liturgy. In form and content it is very close to ancient Celtic and Gallican rites. It also seems to have been heavily influenced by Syriac rites of the early Byzantine Empire. It would later come to be known as the Mozarabic Rite, so named for the Christians who did not flee from the Muslims to the northern part of the Spain with the remnants of Christian Visogothic kingdom. These Christians who adopted Arab dress, customs and language became known as the Mozarabs. Historians have also called this rite the Visogothic Rite, the Toledan Rite, the Old Hispanic Rite and Isidorian Rite because some scholars think its form was influenced by St. Isidore of Seville.