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How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen

Dan Snow's History Hit

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Catherine's Relationship With Jews

Her faith was what held her together when everything started to fall apart. I think that, once again, using example of her mother, faith was the thing that helped her throughout the darkest times. She must have known a number of conversos. So she's aware of people at court whose last names are like abreo rite - someone who clearly is a conversa. But i don't know how much they were able to expose about jewish culture if they had converted into the christian faith. Probably they were trying to lay low and not talk a lot about their previous religion.

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