Francisco Maldonado da Silva

Physician and martyr · 1592–1639

Converso descent · EstablishedOttoman, North African & Western Centers

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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