1. Conversos and the Spanish Inquisition
... 62). The "program" of an Auto would include on of the following about each person being sent to death: Case 3. Felix Nunes de Miranda, age 62, New Christian, business man, native of the town Almeyda in the Bishopric of Lamego and resident of the city of Bahia, convicted, lying, dissembling, inadequate confession, impenitent and relapse (Roth 303). One of the greatest ... Columbus wrote the Hebrew letters Bet Heh, which were used as a Jewish symbol for the blessing "With the help of G-d," a custom of Jews at the time, on letters to his son. These marks, however, were curiously left off l...
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