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Francisco Maldonado da Silva
Francisco Maldonado da Silva (1592 - 1639) was an Argentinian (Tucumano) marrano, who learned about his Jewishness through his father Diego Nunez da Silva, who was a Jewish physician. As his father Francisco became a bachelor in Medicine, his continuous study of scripture made him a religious scholar. After a few years in Chile he decided to assume fully his Jewishness and stop hiding as a Christian (marrano). He was abducted at night and taken to Lima where he was held in the secret prisons of inquisition for 6 years, during those years he was confronted 13 times with Christian ...
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