ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 22nd of October WELCOME! SAINTS NUNILO AND ALODIA, VIRGINS AND MARTYRS Mousa, who was governor of the Saracens , sent twelve thousand men under a general named Tarif, who easily possessed themselves of Mount Calpe, and the town Heraclea, which these Moors called from that time, Gibraltar, or, Mount of Tarif, from this general, and the word Gibel, which in Arabic signifies mountain. These Moors maintained their ground in this fortress, and being reinforced from Africa, defeated the Spaniards. Within three years time the Moors or Saracens were masters of all Spain, in 716, and carried away an immense booty. Mousa’s son Abdalasisa was left governor of Spain, and Seville was made the capital. The Spanish Goths chose Pelagius, the sole surviving prince of the blood royal, king of Spain, in 716, who assembled an army in the mountains of Asturias, recovered that country, Galicia, and Biscay, and aft...