Gracia Mendes Nasi

Gracia Mendes Nasi

female, deceased (1569)
Portuguese explorations, Portugal in the Age of Discovery, Archaic Portuguese, Kingdom of Aragon, Portuguese language, don…Crypto-Judaism, Crypto-Judaic
Gracia Mendes Nasi ("Gracia" is archaic Portuguese or Spanish for the Hebrew "Hannah", also known by her Christianized name "Beatrice de Luna...

Pedro de Arbués

male, deceased (1484)
Christian martyr of the Medieval era, spanish inquisition, spanish, martyr, Jewish person, canonized…Crypto-Judaism
Pedro de Arbués was an official of the Spanish Inquisition who was assassinated in Saragossa Cathedral in 1484 in an alleged plot by conversos and J...
Joan Lluís Vives

Joan Lluís Vives

male, deceased (1540)
Judaizers, Crypto-Judaism, Renaissance humanist, university of leuven, Université catholique de Louvain, erasmus
Joan Lluís Vives (6 March, 1492-6 May, 1540 in Valencia) was a famous Valencian scholar and humanist. As a child he saw his father, grandmother a...

Benjamin Melendez

male, 57 years old
crypto-Jew, Crypto-Judaism, Ghetto Brother, Puerto Rican Socialist Party, marrano, nuyorican
Benjamin Melendez (b. 1952?) is best known for brokering the gang truce in the Bronx and Harlem (New York City) in 1971. At that time, he was...