 In this respect it is a common legend that Alfonso VI took Mozarabic and Roman breviaries and threw them into the fire.When only the Roman breviary burned, the king threw the Mozarabic one into the fire, imposing thus the Roman rite.Alfonso VI, the conqueror of Toledo, the great Europeanizing monarch, saw in the last years of his reign how the great political work that he had carried started to be dismantled due to the Almoravid attacks and internal weaknesses.