 Bishop Braulio of Zaragoza (631-651) wrote in his "Life of St. Emilianus" how the saint prophesied the destruction of Cantabria because of their alleged sins.It is held in popular belief that the converted refugees from the City of Cantabria founded the monastery of Our Lady of Codés in Navarre.A Senate of Cantabria mentioned in the Saint Aemilianus' work bears witness to a local nobility and a governing diet that may have been of the last independent Hispano-Roman provincial authorities.