ÁLVAREZ DE ARELLANO, MANUEL

Practitioner Bio

Born c. 1603 in Yelbes [Elvas], Portugal, the son of Luisa Méndez and Manuel López. Worked as a mortician for the Jewish population of New Spain. Álvarez de Arellano traveled often between Spain and Mexico purchasing supplies and other materials for Jewish burials. Original arrival in New Spain unknown. Tried in 1647. Reconciled to the Church, appeared in the Auto de Fe of 1647. Sentenced to jail for one year, wearing of the sambenito, abjuration de vehementi, and exile.

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Bibliography (secondary sources relating to this practitioner)

Bocanegra, Mathias de. Jews and the Inquisition of Mexico: The Great Auto de Fe of 1649. Translated by Seymour B. Liebman. Kansas: Coronado Press, 1974.

García, Genaro. Autos de Fe de La Inquisición de México Con Extractos de Sus Causas, 1646-1648: Documentos Ineditos o Muy Raros Para La Historia de México. Vol. XXVIII. Mexico: Libreria de la Vuida de Ch. Bouret, 1910.

Liebman, Seymour B. A Guide to Jewish References in the Mexican Colonial Era, 1521-1821. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964.

———. The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World: Summaries of Procesos, 1500-1810. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1975.

Medina, José Toribio. Historia del Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición en México. Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana, 1905.

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