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Diogo Pires (1561 - 1650)

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Bartholomew Ashwood MP (c.1621 - 1680)

Bartholomew Ashwood (1622–1680) was an English puritan divine. Life Ashwood was 'a Warwickshire man,' son of a clergyman of the same name (who matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1591, a...

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Joseph Belinfante, I MP (b. - c.1526)

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article Joseph Cohen Belinfante of Lisbon was the ancestor of the Sephardic family that eventually became a great Jewish family in Amsterdam. JCB left Portugal when...

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Felix de Miranda MP (deceased)

Felix Nunes de Miranda, aged 62 at time of death. DOB not known. New Christian, business man. Native of the town of Almeyda in the Bishopric of Lamego. Resident of the city of Bahia. Convicted, l...

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Saint Joan of Arc MP (1412 - 1431)

Jeanne d'Arc - Wikipedia - French Joan of Arc - Wikipedia - English Jeanne d'Arc - Wikipedia - German Saint Joan of Arc or The Maid of Orléans Saint Joan of Arc or The Maid of Orléans...

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Diogo Pires - Pyrrhus Lusitanus MP (1517 - 1607)

Portuguese Marrano poet and physician. Born in Évora and was known as Flavius Eborensis. In order to escape the Portuguese Inquisition, Pyrrhus left Évora for Salamanca in Spain, where he began to st...

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Giordano Bruno MP (1548 - 1600)

Giordano Bruno - referred to as the Forgotten Philosopher. At age of thirteen years old we went to the School at the Monastery of Saint Domenico. It was a famous place. Thomas Aquinas, himself a Domi...

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Tomás de Torquemada MP (1420 - 1498)

Tomás de Torquemada, O.P. (1420 – September 16, 1498) was a 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain's movement to restore Christianity among its populace in the lat...

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Pope Paul III MP (1468 - 1549)

Pope Paul III - Wikipedia Pope Paul III (29 February 1468 – 10 November 1549), born Alessandro Farnese, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1534 to his death in 1549. He came to the papal th...

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Galileo Galilei MP (1564 - 1641)

He was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astron...

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Gracia Mendes Nasi - Beatriz de Luna MP (1510 - 1569)

Donna Gracia Mendes Nassi YouTube Donna Gracia Mendes Nassi (Gracia is archaic Portuguese and Spanish for the Hebrew Hannah, also known by her Christianized name Beatriz de Luna Miques, 1510–1569) wa...

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Antonio Roiz o Maduro MP (1570 - 1616)

Antonio Roiz o Maduro, was sentenced to be burned to death by the Inquisition in Portugal for "crimes against the Catholic faith and for observance of the laws of Moses." He was burned alive at the sta...

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