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| "A visual representation of an Auto de Fe of the Inquisition in Mexico City during the 1646-1648 period, with thepenitents dressed in their corochas and sanbenitos, as they would be described in historical records. Generated by Gemini AI." |
Report of the prisoners which this Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition of Mexico [City] has castigated and penanced, among others, for observing the Law of Moses in two Auto de Fe which it has celebrated. They are permently exiled from these Provinces of New Spain, Peru, and Tierra Firme [i.e. Central America], Villa de Madrid, His Majesty's Court and the City of Sevilla. They carry documentation of their sentences, ages and external [body] marks to present along with themselves to the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the aforementioned City of Sevilla within one month of their arrival [in Spain] so that they may be assigned the site and place where they are to reside. They are embarking on the annual fleet of Lorenzo Rodriguez de Cordova this year of one thousand six hundred and forty-seven.
Antonio Mendez Bilon; 53 years of age, single, bearing circumcision scars, native of Lisbon, Portugal, wealthy merchant and resident of the City of Nueva Veracruz [in New Spain], somewhat stout, large eyes, full head of hair, full salt and pepper beard and mustache, fluent in the Castillian language. [The prisoner claimed he did not know the origin of his circumcision scars.]
Dona Beatriz Enriquez; 36 years of age, native and resident of the City of Nueva Veracruz [in New Spain], wife of Tomas Mendez, a reconciled Portuguese resident merchant of the aforementioned City [of Nueva Veracruz]. She is swarthy in stature, dark complexion, very thin, has a birthmark on her upper lip, large black eyes and a wrinkle on her nose. She is a daughter of Fernando Rodriguez and Dona Blanca Enriquez, a practicing Jewess.
Clara Antunez; 22 years of age, native and resident of this City of Mexico, wife of Manuel Rios [sic. Rodriguez] Nunez, reconciled by this Holy Office. She is well built, good looking, has large black eyes, closed eye brows, jet black hair, with a birthmark on the left side of her mouth and another on her body.
Diego Mendez de Silva; 46 years of age, native of Albuquerque, Portugal, a resident of the City of Sevilla where he is married with Luisa de Mercado. His wife and daughter Blanca have been certified as observing the Law of Moses by that Inquisition [of Sevilla]. He has light complexion, very bald, of good stature, a heavy beard, and a salt and pepper mustache.
Esperanza Rios [sic.Rodriguez]; dark skinned mulatta, 50 years of age more or less, native of the City of Puebla [de los Angeles in New Spain], resident of this City of Mexico, widow of Juan Bautista del Bosque, who was a German by nationality. She is tall, elderly looking and has graying hair.
Francisco de Acosta; 34 or 35 years of age, single, native of Lisbon, Portugal, resident of Guatemala. He is tall, has bushy eye brows, black hair and beard, large black eyes, and a wide forehead. He is fluent in Portuguese.
Francisco Nunez Navarro; 50 years of age, single, native of the Villa de Chazin, Portugal, a resident of [the Kingdom of Nueva] Galicia of this New Spain. He is a merchant by trade. He is medium in height, stout, heavy legs, graying hair and has a round face and blue eyes. He is fluent in Portuguese.
Hernando [AKA Fernando] Rodriguez; over 60 years of age, native of the Villa de Aveiro, Portugal, resident of the City of Nueva Veracruz [in New Spain] where he was an agent of African slaves for the Portuguese Crown. He is a widower of Dona Blanca Enriquez, an observer of the law of Moses who died in the secret cells of this Holy Office. He is of good stature, has a light complexion, freckles on the right side of his body, blue eyes, gray hair and beard. He is fluent in Portuguese. [Doctors of the Inquisition examined him and concluded he had a circumcision scar. He denied it and claimed not having it.]
Francisco Lopez Correa; 28 years of age, single young man, has no trade, and is a native and resident of the aforementioned City of Nueva Veracruz [in New Spain]. He is of light complexion, good stature, good features, with black hair, black eyes, scant beard and mustache. He is a son of the previous prisoner [i.e. Fernando Rodriguez] and his wife Donna Blanca Enriquez.
Francisco Diaz de Montoya; 47 years of age more or less, native of Casteloblanco, Portugal, resident merchant of the City of Manila, Philippines Islands, where he is married with Dona Nicolasa Banuelos. He is of good stature, of dark complexion, black hair and beard, has two body scars which seem to be wounds; one on his right jaw and the other between the eyes. [Doctors of the Inquisition examined him and concluded he had been circumcised. He said he had allowed himself to be circumcised due to some sores he had develpoed as a consequence of an illness in that area.]
Geronimo Nunez de Rojas; 34 years of age, single, native of the City of la Guarda, Protugal, unemployed resident of this City of Mexico. He is tall, thin, has slim legs, large feet, black hair and beard, is cross eyed and has a scar between his eyes which he said is a wound from being hit with a rock. [Doctors of the Inquisition examined him and determined he had a circumcision scar. He claimed not knowing where he got it.]
Gabriel de Granada [sic. Granados]; 19 years of age, single, unemployed native and resident of this City of Mexico. He is a son of Manuel de Granados who passed away in the Philippine Islands, and Dona Maria de Rivera, an observer of the Law of Moses who passes away in the secret cells of this Holy Office. He [the prisoner] is lanky, has a full head of black hair, black eyes, and a beard of the same coloring beginning to develop. [Doctors of the Inquisition examined him and determined he had a circumcision scar. He claimed he did not know who might have given him such a scar.]
Isabel Rodriguez del Bosque; 25 years of age, white skinned mulatta, native and resident of this City of Mexico, tall, slim, has a good body and black eyes. She is a daughter of the aforementioned mulatta Esperanza Rodriguez and Juan Bautista del Bosque.
Juan Rodriguez Suarez {aka Juarez]; 35 years of age, single, native of the City of Lisbon, Portugal, resident of this City of Mexico. He is well built, pudgy, full head of black hair, large nose, black eyes and black beard and mustache. He speaks Portuguese. [Doctors of the Inquisition examined him and concluded he had a circumcision scar. He claimed he had no explanation for the scar other than the fact that he had been sick in that area.]
Juan Cardoso; 55 years of age, single native of the Villa de Simide, Portugal, resident merchant of the Pueblo de Orizaba, New Spain. He is fluent in the Portuguese language. He has a dark complexion, lots of gray hair, well built, large eyes, and the joint of his right hand's middle finger bears a scar. [Doctors of the Inquisition examined him and concluded he had a circumcision scar. He confessed it was.]
Juana Rodriguez del Bosque; 29 years of ages, white skinned mulatta, native of Cartagena de las Indias, resident of this [City of] Mexico, wife of Blas Lopez, a Portuguese observer of the Law of Moses and a fugitive for many years. She is a daughter of the aforementioned Esperanza Rodriguez and Juan Bautista del Bosque. The prisoner is good looking, well built, has a round face, is somewhat stout and has a wart below and to the left of her chin.
Juan Mendez de Villaviciosa; 40 years of age more or less, native of Villaviciosa, Portugal, resident merchant of this City of Mexico. He is tall, somewhat hunchbacked, well built, has a light complexion and black hair and beard. This prisoner was sentenced to five years service in His Majesty's galleons.
Luis de Amezquita Sarmiento; 50 years of age, single, native of the City of Segovia [Spain], a resident of this City of Mexico. He has a dark complexion, is of medium height, somewhat pudgy, silghtly bald, much gray hair, blue eyes and a mishaped nose.
Manuel Rodriguez Nunez, alias Caraballo; 36 years of age, native of Casteloblanco, Portugal, unemployed resident of Mexico [City], married with the aforementioned Clara Antunes. He is of medium height, thin, has a scant beard, black mustache, small mouth and a wound scar on his forehead.
Manuel Diaz de Castilla; 44 years of age, single, native of Ciudad Rodrigo [Spain], resident merchant of Mexico [City]. He is well built, thin, had a pale complexion, black hair, beard and mustache with some gray hair. [Doctors of the Inquisition examined him and determined he had a circumcision scar. He denied it and claimed to have been ill in that area.]
Manuel Carrasco; 35 years of age, single, native of Villaflor, Portugal, unemployed resident of Valle de Amilpas [in New Spain]. He is well built, has good features, blue eyes, chestnut hair and beard, wide forehead, and has a wound scar below the left side of his mustache.
Maria Rodriguez del Bosque; 20 years of age, single, white skinned mulatta, native of the City of Guadalajara [in Nueva Galicia] of this New Spain. She is a daughter of the aforementioned Esperanza Rodriguez and Juan Bautista del Bosque. The prisoner is tall, stout, good looking and has black eyes.
Nuno de Figueroa, alias Nuno Perea; 45 years of age, single, native of the City of Lisbon, Portugal, resident merchant of Guadalajara [in Nueva Galicia] of New Spain. He is well built, thin, has black hair and beard with streaks of gray, and is missing two lower teeth.
Cristobal de Castro; 34 years of age, native of Valladolid in Castilla [Spain], unemployed resident of Valle de Amilpas in this New Spain, married with Leonor Baez, an observer of the Law of Moses who resides in the aforementioned Villa de Valladolid. He is of medium height, thin body, black beard, large eyes and has a dark complexion. He was sentenced to serve five years [as an unpaid oarsman] on the galleons. [Doctors of the Inquisition examined him and determined he had been circumcised. He confessed it so.]
Bachiller Rodrigo Fernandez Correa; 24 years of age, single, medical doctor, native of the City of Nueva Veracruz [in New Spain]. He is a son of the aforementioned Fernando Rodriguez and Dona Blanca Rodriguez. The prisoner has a lanky body, thin, black hair, scant beard and mustache, dark complexion, and bears a scar on his forehead from a fall.
Rafael de Grananda [sic. Granados]; 20 years of age, single, student of rhetoric [at the university], native of the City of Mexico. He is a son of the aforementioned Maria de Rivera and Manuel de Granada [sic. Granandos]. He is tall, not well featured, with small pox pits, some freckles on his torso, a light complexion and black hair. [Doctors of the Inquisition examined him and concluded he had a circumcision scar. He claimed he did not know who had done that to him.]
Tomas Lopez Monforte; 35 years of age, native of Monoforte, Portugal, homeless and unemployed. He is tall, thin, has blue eyes and blond hair and beard. He is fluent in Portuguese.
Tomas Mendez; 44 years of age, native of the Villa de Camina, Portugal, resident merchant of the City of Nueva Veracruz [New Spain]. He is married with the aforementioned Dona Beatriz Enriquez who has been reconciled. He is of medium height, not very stout, has a dark complexion, black hair and beard streaked with gray. His left hand is maimed and he has a scar on his right eye.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard G. Santos earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Mary's University in History and English and a Master of Arts degree in English from Trinity University. While still an undergraduate at St. Mary's, Richard's first book, Santa Ana's Campaign Against Texas, was released by Texian Press of Waco in 1968 and reprinted by R & D Books of Salisbury, North Carolina in 1981. It remains the unchallenged keystone for anyone doing research or interested in the military history of the Texas Revolution and Battle of the Alamo. Since then, Richard has authored, co-authored and written introductions for 30 books, 300 articles [published in the U.S., Mexico, Europe, and Japan], and released two albums and two audio cassettes of Tejano folk music. He has also written and produced 12 film documentaries, and has appeared in numerous documentaries including The West, released by PBS nationally in September 1996. Nine of his books have been used as supplementary readers by a number of school districts and universities in Texas and the Southwest, with some reprints issued by the Texas Education Agency.
Along the way, Richard served as the first Archivist of Bexar County [Texas], Office of County Clerk. Thereafter, he taught full-time and served as Director of Ethnic Studies at Our Lady of the Lake University, and has taught part time at Trinity University, Palo Alto Community College, and the School of Aero Space Medicine at Brooks AFB, all located in San Antonio, Texas. He has also served as consultant and lecturer for the Texas Education Agency, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of Labor, and numerous school districts and universities throughout Texas and the Southwest. Apart from doing radio programs in English for WOAI and in Spanish for KBUC, Richard was also a weekly columnist for the San Antonio Express-News from 1988 to 1993.
Richard began to lecture and publish articles on the Sephardic New Christians and Crypto Jews of Texas, Mexico and the U.S. Southwest as early as 1968, when the topic was considered controversial. Within ten years, the mistrust of both the Hispanic and Jewish communities had been overcome and Richard was sharing the podium at Trinity University with renown Jewish scholar Seymour Liebman. Later, Richard became a feature speaker at Jewish Historical conferences in San Antonio, El Paso, and Galveston, Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as Temple Beth El in San Antonio. He has also conducted a mini-course on the Crypto Jews and the Mexican Inquisition at the Jewish Community Center of San Antonio.
Fuente: https://web.archive.org/web/20001014000147/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/1340/autos.html
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