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Holy Infant of Atocha, Santo Niño de Atocha, Holy Child of Atocha, Saint Child of Atocha, or Wise Child of Atocha is a Roman Catholic image of the Christ Child popular among the Hispanic cultures of Spain, Latin America and the southwestern United States. It is distinctly characterized by a basket of bread he carries, along with a staff, and a ...
Niño (Spanish for boy) is a given name, nickname and surname of Spanish origin. The appearance of the surname dates back to medieval Spain, where several prestigious families had the surname, such as the Niño de Guevara family of Bishops from Andalusia, and the Niño brothers, who were involved in the Discovery of the Americas.
A photograph of William Saunders Crowdy which appeared in a 1907 edition of The Baltimore Sun. The origins of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement are found in Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, who both claimed that they had revelations in which they believed that God told them that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews in the Christian Bible; Cherry established the "Church ...
Nino Cottone, nickname of Antonio Cottone (1904/1905 – 1956), Sicilian Mafioso; Nino Culotta, pen name of John O'Grady, (1907 – 1981), Australian writer; Nino D'Angelo, nickname of Gaetano D'Angelo (born 1957), Italian singer; Nino de Angelo, stagename of Domenico Gerhard Gorgoglione (born 1963), German singer
One of the most documented episodes of this persecution was the arrest of the Portuguese Sebastián Rodríguez, accused of being a Judaizer, meaning a practitioner of Judaism. Rodríguez led a group of Crypto-Jews, including Antonio de Ávila, González de Silva, Domingo de Almeyda, and a Mercedarian friar, all secretly practicing Judaism.
Sephardi Hebrew (or Sepharadi Hebrew; Hebrew: עברית ספרדית, romanized: Ivrit Sefardit, Ladino: Ebreo de los Sefaradim) is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jews.
Search Out the Land: The Jews and the Growth of Equality in British Colonial America, 1740-1867 (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 1995), focus on Canada. Pencak, William. Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800 ( University of Michigan Press. 2005), a standard scholarly history; Reiss, Oscar. The Jews in Colonial America (McFarland, 2004) online
Monument to the Niños Héroes in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Juan de la Barrera was born in 1828 in Mexico City, the son of Ignacio Mario de la Barrera, an army general, and Juana Inzárruaga. He enlisted at the age of 12 and was admitted to the Academy on 18 November 1843.