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- A converso (Spanish: [komˈbeɾso]; Portuguese: [kõˈvɛɾsu]; feminine form conversa), "convert" (from Latin conversus 'converted, turned around'), was a Jew...
- specifically refers to the charge of crypto-Judaism, whereas the term converso was used for the wider po****tion of Jewish converts to Catholicism, whether...
- thousands of forced conversions, torture and executions, the ****cution of conversos and moriscos, and the m**** expulsions of Jews and Muslims from Spain....
- San Paolo Converso is a former Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy, now utilized as a contemporary art space. The church was constructed...
- Mediterranean Sea, who are descendants of Majorcan Jews that either were conversos (forcible converts to Christianity) or were Crypto-Jews, forced to keep...
- Christians" refers to the Jewish converts, who were generally known as Conversos (or in a more derogatory fashion Marranos), while the Muslim converts...
- politically, and economically advantageous to convert to Catholicism (see Converso, Morisco, and Marrano). The existence of superficial converts from Judaism...
- (1388 – 26 September 1468), Spanish ecclesiastic, defender of Jewish conversos, has been described as the most articulate papal apologist of the fifteenth...
- and Portuguese Jews who outwardly professed Catholicism, also known as Conversos, Marranos, or the ****im. The phenomenon is especially ****ociated with...
- The history of the Jews in Latin America began with conversos who joined the Spanish and Portuguese expeditions to the continents. The Alhambra Decree...