Converso
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Converso (Spanish and Portuguese for "a convert", from Latin conversus, "converted, turned around") and its feminine form conversa referred to Jews or Muslims or the descendants of Jews or Muslims who had converted, sometimes unwillingly, to Catholicism in Spain and Portugal, particularly during the 1300s and 1400s.
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- Morisco for New Christians of Moorish origin. The term morisco may also refer to Crypto-Muslims, i.e. those who secretly continued to practise Islam.
- Marrano for New Christians of Jewish origin. The term marrano is especially used to refer to Crypto-Jews, i.e. those who secretly continued to practise Judaism.
Jewish conversos were often suspected of preserving their ancestral rites in this way and were especially a target of the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition.
Some argue that they contributed disproportionately to cultural and political life in Spain and included Saint Teresa of Avila and, it was alleged, the Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada himself, although there is no direct proof to back up any of such claims. See also Donmeh.
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