Petrus Alphonsi was a Spanish physician, writer, astronomer and polemicist who was a former Jew, but later on converted to Christianity in 1106. He is also known just as Alphonsi, and as Peter Alfonsi or Peter Alphonso, and was born Moses Sephardi. Born in Islamic Spain, he mostly lived in England and France after his conversion.
Petrus Alfonsi's Tetragrammaton-Trinity diagram, which influenced Joachim of Fiore and the development of the Shield of the Trinity diagram
A 13th-century Belgian manuscript showing the dialogue between the Jew "Moyses" and the Christian "Petrus"
Huesca is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon between 1096 and 1118. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009, it had a population of 52,059, almost a quarter of the total population of the province. The city is one of the smallest provincial capitals in Spain.
Image: Huesca desde la Catedral I
Image: Huesca Catedral, exterior 09
Image: Huesca Parque Miguel Servet 03 edited
The Bell of Huesca, by José Casado del Alisal