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Writer and missionary. His Ethymologiae was
the model for later medieval encyclopedias
and helped to preserve classical thought
during the Middle Ages; his Chronica Maiora
remains an important source for the history
of Visigothic Spain. As bishop of Seville
from 600, he strengthened the church in Spain
and converted many Jews and Aryan Visigoths.