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Susana Ben Susón, nicknamed La Susona, was a young Jewish convert from Seville and features in a legend. She was the daughter of don Diego Susón a Jewish convert . Jews were an oppressed minority in Seville in the late Middle Ages and in 1391 a violent pogrom in the Jewish quarter (la Judería) reduced the Jewish population of 500 families by ...
The vast majority of conversos remained in Spain and Portugal, and their descendants, who number in the millions, live in both of these countries. [ citation needed ] 100,000-300,000 Jews did leave Spain after 1492 (estimates vary) and settled in different parts of Europe and the Maghreb, while some migrated as far as the Indian subcontinent ...
A converso (Spanish: [komˈbeɾso]; Portuguese: [kõˈvɛɾsu]; feminine form conversa), "convert" (from Latin conversus ' converted, turned around '), was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.
[a] They decided to confront the "converso problem," especially after having received some alarming reports in 1475 by the Prior of the Dominicans of Seville, Friar Alonso de Ojeda, [b] who reported that there were a large number of conversos in that city secretly practicing their religion in private, some even doing so openly.
The La Colasal Immaculate Conception is a c. 1645-1655 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References
During the French occupation of Seville in the Peninsula War, the cathedral treasury was sacked by troops under Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult. Murillo's Immaculate Conception and Birth of the Virgin were taken and Vision was almost also taken, but the town council proposed exchanging it for Nativity of the Virgin and so it remained in the chapel. [1]
Galicia implements taxes between 1 and 2.50 euros daily. Tenerife adds charges for accessing natural areas. Alicante increases entry fees for cultural sites. Seville introduces new plaza access ...
Museum of Fine Arts of Seville, Seville Saint Francis Embracing Christ on the Cross or Allegory of Saint Francis' Renunciation of the Material World to Follow Jesus is an oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , created in 1668-1669, now held in the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville .