At the very beginning of Leo I's pontificate, in the years 444 – 447, Turribius, bishop of Astorga in León, sent to Rome a memorandum warning that Priscillianism was by no means dead, reporting that it numbered even bishops among its supporters, and asking the aid of the Roman See.

Roman Pompaelo was located in the province of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the Ab Asturica Burdigalam, the road from Burdigala ( modern Bordeaux ) to Asturica ( modern Astorga ); it was a civitas stipendiaria in the jurisdiction of the conventus of Caesaraugusta ( modern Zaragoza ).

It was crossed by two important Roman roads, the via xxiv-xxix ( joining Astorga to laminium and via xxv ( which joined Emerita Augusta and Caesaraugusta ), and contained some important conurbations.

Saint Turibius of Astorga was bishop of the city in the 5th century.

One of the first three bishoprics in Spain was founded in Astorga, so the title of Bishop of Astorga is one of the oldest religious charges of Europe.

During the Peninsular War, Astorga was besieged by the French Napoleonic troops.

Astorga was the farthest town in the Iberian Peninsula in which the Emperor Napoleon resided.

Something was done for its repression by a synod held by Turibius of Astorga in 446, and by that of Toledo in 447 ; as an openly professed creed it had to be declared heretical once more by the second synod of Braga in 563, a sign that Priscillianist asceticism was still strong long after his execution.

The long prevalent estimation of Priscillian as a heretic and Manichaean rested upon Augustine, Turibius of Astorga, Leo the Great and Orosius ( who quotes a fragment of a letter of Priscillian's ), although at the Council of Toledo in 400, fifteen years after Priscillian's death, when his case was reviewed, the most serious charge that could be brought was the error of language involved in a misrendering of the word innascibilis (" unbegettable ").

While Luigi Rossi was his predecessor in developing the chamber-cantata, Carissimi was the composer who first made this form the vehicle for the most intellectual style of chamber-music, a function which it continued to perform until the death of Alessandro Scarlatti, Astorga and Marcello.

The capital city was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god Lugh ( see Lyon ), later Latinised as Lucus Augusti, and which became one of the three main important Galician-Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta ( modern Braga and Astorga respectively ).

A similarly-worded charter was issued in 1041 and again in 1061, where the order of kingdoms is reversed and Astorga ignored: " emperor in León and in Castile ".

Ramiro also may have been the father of Gatón, Count of Astorga and of El Bierzo, since the 14th century Al-Bayan al-Mughrib of Ibn Idhari, states that Gatón was the ' brother ' of Ordoño I de Asturias.

He was in frequent contact with some important bishops of the day, including Thoribius of Astorga and Antoninus of Mérida.

In June 1490, a roving carder, a converso named Benito Garcia, aged 60, a native of the town of La Guardia, was stopped in Astorga in the province of León.

He was taken for interrogation before the Vicar-general ( Judicial Judge ) of the Bishopric of Astorga, Pedro de Villada.

It was on the road from Emerita ( modern Mérida ) to Asturica Augusta ( modern Astorga ).

Allowing the river to be crossed at any time of the year, the bridge was an important factor of development for the town, but it was also necessary and useful for the Pax Romana: here there were hot springs visited by a lot of people ; in the region there were mines with precious metals, whose product was taken to Rome ; across the bridge passed the important Roman road of Braga to Astorga, with a lot of traffic ; and lastly here was quartered a numerous detachment of legionnaires of the Roman army.

In the time of the Romans there was a settlement called Veniatia, through which passed the road that linked Braga to Astorga.

At a later date, in the beginning of the Reconquista period in the early Middle Ages, their name was preserved in the medieval Kingdom of Asturias and in the modern town of Astorga, León, whose designation still reflects its early Roman name of Asturica Augusta, the " Augustan settlement of the Astures ".

Having done so, he continued with Tariq to the north ; Musa heading for Zaragoza, to which he lay siege, while Tariq continued to the provinces of León and Castile, capturing the towns of León and Astorga.

Priscillian's ascetic heresy, which originated in Galicia, spread over the Tierra de Campos ruled by the Arian Visigoths, and was opposed by Toribius, Bishop of Astorga.

In this manner, traditions of Astorga tell us of a Rock of the Souls ( identified with San Andrés de Teixido ) situated on the Sea of the Dead, that is, the Ocean which surrounds the Northern Coast of Galicia.

By the kindness of the Princess of Ursini, the unfortunate young man was placed in a convent at Astorga, in León, where he completed a musical education which is said to have been begun in Palermo under Francesco Scarlatti.

Pope Leo I at a later date took active steps for its repression and at his urgent insistence councils were held in 446 and 447 at Astorga, Toledo, and Braga.

Astorga was later fired as trainer.

* Saint Gennadius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga, later a hermit ( 936 )

* El Manuscrito de Astorga, written by one Juan de Bergara in 1624.

Astorga deserves remembrance for his dignified and pathetic Stabat Mater, and for his numerous chamber-cantatas for one or two voices.

Between 28-24 BC Augustus ' military campaigns pacified all Hispania under Roman rule, with the foundation of Roman cities like Asturica Augusta ( Astorga ) and Bracara Augusta ( Braga ) to the north, and to the south Emerita Augusta ( Mérida ) ( settled with the emeriti of the Legio V Alaudae and Legio X Gemina legions ).

Bishop Turrubius of Astorga, astonished at the spread of this sect in Spain, had addressed the other Spanish bishops on the subject, sending a copy of his letter to Leo, who took the opportunity to exercise Roman policy in Spain.

When the Suebi invaded the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis, the Visigoths attacked and defeated them 5 October 456 at the Campus Paramus, twelve miles from Astorga, on the banks of the Órbigo ( Urbicus ), subsequently occupying the province as nominal foederati of the Empire.

There are Roman Catholic cathedrals at León and Astorga.

During Roman colonization, it was part of Gallaecia and dependent administratively on Astorga, on the Atlantic axis of a Roman highway from Meseta, that controlled the gold, iron and silver trade.

Prior to the Roman conquest at the late 1st century BC, they were united into a tribal federation with the mountain-top citadel of Asturica ( Astorga ) as their capital.

** Foundation of the Roman cities of Asturica Augusta ( Astorga ) and Bracara Augusta ( Braga ), to the north, and, to the south, Emerita Augusta ( Mérida ) ( settled with the emeriti of the 5th and 10th legions ).

Moore was joined at Astorga by General Romana leading the remnants of Blake's Spanish forces and Romana proposed they make a stand.

Here they held the towns of Lancia ( Villasabariego – León ), Asturica ( Astorga – León ), Mons Medullius ( Las Medulas?

The Via Platea went from Asturica ( Astorga ) to Emerita ( Mérida ).

This was followed by the establishment of military garrisons at Castra Legio VII Gemina ( León ) and Petavonium ( Rosinos de Vidriales – Zamora ), along with colonies at Asturica Augusta ( Astorga ) and Lucus Asturum.

Husband and wife quarrelled with the brutality of the age and came to open war, even placing Urraca under siege at Astorga in 1112.

* 1680 – Emanuele d ' Astorga, Italian composer ( d. 1736 )

He is also mentioned as having insisted on the restoration of the bishops of León and Astorga, who had been deposed for unfaithfulness during the persecution but afterwards had repented.

They defeat the Suebi under king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga ( Gallaecia ); this shatters the power of the Suebi.

* In a continuing effort to expend northward, the de facto ruler of al-Andalus, al-Mansur captures the city of Astorga.

* A local synod is held by Turibius of Astorga.

* Arnaldo, Bishop of Astorga, wrote an account of Alfonso VII's life and reign known as the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris.

Astorga Cathedral | Cathedral of Astorga.

Astorga is a town in the province of León, northern Spain.

Astorga lies in the area of the Maragatos, a small ethnic and cultural community with distinctive customs and architecture.

Astorga suffered from decadence until the 11th century, when the city became a major stop on the French route for the pilgrims to the tomb of Saint James in Compostela.

There are also findings in Scotland at Inveresk, in Spain at Astorga, in Italy at Rome, in Sweden at Fycklinge, in Austria at Lendorf, in England at Thetford, in Hungary at O-Szöny and in Romania at Alba Iulia and Bretea Română.

At Limoges, he is found with Mars and at Astorga with Serapis, Isis, Mars-Sagatus and Core.