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The Vandal persecution of Catholics during the time of the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa. Part 1 charts their rise and migration from German lands to Africa during which time the Vandals converted to Arian Christianity. The Vandals would persecute Catholic Christians in both Spain and North Africa with the persecution being at its peak during King Geiseric's time followed by Huneric his son. The persecution only stopped when Gelimer the last Vandal King was defeated by a Byzantine army under Belisarius and the Vandal Kingdom annexed into the East Roman Empire.