iators, showing them to be true
martyrs, though without miracles.[2] His brother was deprived of his
place, one of the first dignities of the kingdom. St. Eulogius himself
was obliged by the persecutors to live always, after his releasement,
with the treacherous bishop Reccafred, that wolf in sheep's clothing.
Wherefore he refrained from saying mass, that he might not communicate
with that domestic enemy.

The archbishop of Toledo dying in 858, St. Eulogius was canonically
elected to succeed him; but there was some obstacle that hindered him
from being consecrated; though he did not outlive his election two
months. A virgin, by name Leocritia, of a noble family among the Moors,
had been instructed from her infancy in the Christian religion by one of
her relations, and privately baptized. Her father and mother perceiving
this, used her very ill, and scourged her day and night to compel her to
renounce the faith. Having made her condition known to St. Eulogius and
his sister Anulona, intimating that she desired to go where she might
freely exercise her religion, they secretly procured her the means of
getting away from her parents, and concealed her for some time among
faithful friends. But the matter was at length discovered, and they were
all brought before the cadi. Eulogius offered to show the judge the true
road to heaven, and to demonstrate Mahomet to be an impostor. The cadi
threatened to have him scourged to death. The martyr told him his
torments would be to no purpose; for he would never change his religion.
Whereupon the cadi gave orders that he should be carried to the palace,
and presented before the king's council. One of the lords of the council
took the saint aside, and said to him: "Though the ignorant unhappily
run headlong to death, a man of your learning and virtue ought not to
imitate their folly. Be ruled by me, I entreat you: say but one word,
since necessity requires it: you may afterwards resume your own
religion, and we will promise that no inquiry shall be made after you."
Eulogius replied, smiling: "Ah! if you could but conceive the reward
which waits for those who persevere in the faith to the end, you would
renounce your temporal dignity in exchange for it." He then began boldly
to propose the truths of the gospel to them. But to prevent their
hearing him, the council condemned him immediately to lose his head. As
they were leading him to execution, one of the eunuchs of the palace
gave him a