The Spanish Inquisition

eliefs, it is known that quite a bit of non-Catholic worshipping went on covertly (Roth, 1964). Those who were only nominally converted and who practiced their faith in secret were also called Marranos. After professing themselves to conversion, the converts were able to move on as normal citizens again, seemingly without persecution, attaining wealth, status and positions of power. This would seem to do nothing for the hatred or anti-Semitism that underlined the premise of the Inquisition.
             The Church began to concern itself with reports of heresy among its new members. In 1478 a young man who was trying to court a formerly Jewish girl, had gone to meet her but came upon her and others involved in some sort of strange celebration. It happened to be the Jewish Passov
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