I place this in Spanish this morning, felt the need to also translate.... WOW... I am part of something big! I did find out about me if my offspring and my family know TORRES is part of those Jews who suffered the Alhambra Decree, Spain in 1492. The Jewish population back in this time had 3 options: (1) convert to Catholicism, (2) Get out of the Spanish peninsula by certain stipulated date (many left in the boat s with Christopher Columbus to discovery of America) and the last option was to be sentenced to death without any trial Many of them chose to stay and were exposed to the Inquisition and some chose the 3rd option to convert to be Catholic (the NEW Christians) to gain some temp while putting their things together so they can leave the Spanish peninsula. This is how they hid from this terrible time of the Inquisition where many Jews were killed by the kings of Spain and the Catholic Church of that time. Here, I can leave you with some info of my Ancestry; I am part of the Sephardic Jewish and the Hebrew Jewish. Paternal Grandparents: Luis F. Torres Fandiño - born 04.10.1902 Remolino, Magdalena, Colombia María Isabel Torres Catalán - born 5/24/1902 Carmen De Bolívar, Bolívar, Colombia Paternal great-grandparents: Luis F. Torres Cohen (Born in Catalonia Spain) ... Mercedes married Isabel Fandiño Luis F. Torres Cohen (Born in Catalonia Spain) ... married to Luisa Catalan Castillo Parents of my great- grandparents: Jose de Jesus Lucio Torres married to Mercedes - Cohen Born in Bristol, England
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 01:05:18 +0000
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