Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews".
Judaica (clockwise from top): Shabbat candlesticks, handwashing cup, Chumash and Tanakh, Torah pointer, shofar, and etrog box.
Jewish religious items at the Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey.
A converso, "convert", was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.
Saint Joseph of Anchieta (1534–1597), Spanish Jesuit missionary to Brazil and one of the founders of Sao 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 Majorca.