Crypto-Judaism
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Crypto-Judaism is the secretive adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith. Practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews".
The village of Belmonte, Portugal, home to a crypto-Jewish community for centuries, which was only discovered in the 20th century
Jewish religious items at the Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey.
An auto-da-fé in New Spain, 18th century
Converso
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A converso was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.
Crypto-Judaism
…κρυπτός, 'hidden'). The term is especially applied historically to Spanish and Portuguese Jews who outwardly professed Catholicism, also known as Conversos, Marranos, or the Anusim; in Italy they were known as Neofiti. The phenomenon is especially associated with medieval Spain, following the Massacre of…
Saint Joseph of Anchieta (1534–1597), Spanish Jesuit missionary to Brazil and one of the founders of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. José de Anchieta was a descendant of Jewish converts through the maternal line.
Church of Montesión (Mount Zion) in Palma de Mallorca, the main church of Xuetas of Mallorca.