It is recorded by ancient chronicles that in the year of grace 624 a certain heathen King of Spain, Fenis by name, whose Queen was also a heathen, crossed over the sea with a mighty host into Christendom, and there, in the space of three days, made such havoc of the land, with destruction of towns, churches, and
cloisters, that for full thirty miles from the shore where he had landed, not a human being or habitation was left to show where happy homes had been.