Marrano

How To Use Marrano In A Sentence

• Death of Don Joseph Nasi, a wealthy Jewish businessman (born as a Marrano in Portugal) who moved to Istanbul from Europe in 1554 and gained much influence by financing the rise to power of Selim II. C. 1570
• Other names for pig are cerdo, cochino and marrano, and a suckling pig is called a lechón. A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb
• Maraniss comes from Marrano, which is a word that was given to Spanish Jews during the Inquisition, conversos. First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
• In late 1594, Elizabeth I's personal physician -- and one of Burghley's highest-placed intelligencers -- a Portugese Marrano (a crypto-Jew) by the name of Roderigo or Roderick or Roger Lopez or Lopus or Lopius, was executed at Tyburn for plotting to murder the queen. Well i don't know if i'm wrong because she's only just gone
• Marrano, which is behind the Cibo Palace, near the houses of the Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
• A fully fledged Marrano represents as much a taxonomicl challenge to the historian as the duck-billed platypus did to a Victorian naturalist. Well i don't know if i'm wrong because she's only just gone
• During his four years in Montpellier, Platter lodged with a Marrano family, Spanish Jews forcibly converted to Christianity. Savoring The Past
• Her target was solely the marranos, "converts" who were suspected of still practising their "heathen rites" under the cloak of Catholic piety.
• He was declared a Marrano, a Jew who had only pretended to embrace the One True Faith. Crusade
• There were terms for a Christian living under Arab rule (mozarab), a Muslim living under Christian rule (mudejar), a Christian who converted to Islam (muladi), a Jew who converted to Christianity (converso), a Jew who converted but remained a secret Jew (marrano) and a Muslim who converted to Christianity (morisco). . . Philocrites: September 2003 Archives