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A service in a Spanish synagogue, from the Sister Haggadah (c. 1350). The Alhambra Decree would bring Spanish Jewish life to a sudden end. The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the ...
The excommunication was carried out by legates of Pope Leo IX after the Pope's death. This excommunication was only directed at these individuals named and not at the wider eastern church; the legates specifically made note that they considered the wider eastern church to remain pious and orthodox. [37]
While few reliable statistics exist for the expulsion, modern estimates by scholars from the University of Barcelona estimated the number of Sephardic Jews during the 15th century at 400,000 out of a total population of approximately 7.5 million people in all of Spain, out of whom about half (at least 200,000 [87] [88]) or slightly more ...
Any bishop who violates the rules the council set down for a diocese that has believers with different languages and rites. Those who presume to impose taxes on the church. Crusaders who refuse to carry out vows they made to go on crusade. Those who fail to carry out the duties the council set on them for raising money for the crusade.
The 103-year-old believes the reason she was banned is because she spoke out about the church's pastor, Rev. Tim Maddox. "He told police he wanted to put us out, but the police told him 'you can't ...
After Stamos arrived at the church, he was brought into the Scientology building and introduced to a machinery known as the “E-Meter,” which was made out of two cans.
Although initial estimates of the number expelled such as those of Henri Lapeyre range between 275,000 and 300,000 [3] Moriscos (or 4% of the total Spanish population), the extent and actual success of the expulsion order in purging Spain of its Moriscos has been increasingly challenged by modern historians, starting with the seminal studies ...
For the record: 5:38 p.m. Jan. 31, 2023: An earlier version of this article said Mexico’s official languages were Spanish and Nahuatl.However, an official language is not established in the ...