Mozarab émigré churchmen carried martyr relics and texts into the Christian north

Evidence

Mozarabs—and particularly Mozarab churchmen—provided a key link between Muslim south and Christian north. When Alfonso III needed to negotiate a peace treaty with Muhammad I in September 883, he sent Dulcidius, a Mozarab priest from Toledo. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 555

Categorization

  • XREF: The physical transit of Eulogius’s martyr corpus from Córdoba to Oviedo via diplomatic negotiation shows ideology traveling across the religious boundary — relevant to how the victim/martyr narrative propagated northward into crusade ideology.