Physician born to a converso family in what is now Argentina who embraced Judaism openly. Arrested by the Inquisition, he refused to recant and was burned at the stake in Lima in 1639.
Physician and martyr · 1592–1639
Physician born to a converso family in what is now Argentina who embraced Judaism openly. Arrested by the Inquisition, he refused to recant and was burned at the stake in Lima in 1639.
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