MORALES, MANUEL DE
Practitioner Bio
Born in Portugal. Married to Isabel Perez. Was a doctor in Venice before coming to New Spain with Luis de Carvajal in 1580. Returned to Venice in 1584. Warrant for his arrest was issued in 1589. Trial in absentia 16 November 1589. Penitenced in absentia 24 February 1590 in Auto in New Spain as a principal ringleader of the Jews. Burned in effigy in New Spain in 1593. Was again accused for Judaizing while absent in 1597. Found guilty in second trial while still absent in 1599, likely hiding in Europe.
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Bibliography (secondary sources relating to this practitioner)
Archivo General de la Nacion and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México. Libro Primero de Votos de La Inquisición de México: 1573-1600. Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria, 1949.
Cohen, Martin A. The Martyr: Luis de Carvajal, a Secret Jew in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973.
D’Ardois, German Somolinos. Relación Alfabetica de Los Profesionistas Médicos o En Conexión Con La Medicina, Que Practicaron En Territorio Mexicano (1521-1618). Mexico: Sociedad Mexicana de Historia y Filosofía de la Medicina, 1978.
Escobar Quevedo, Ricardo. Inquisición y Judaizantes En America Española (Siglos XVI-XVII). Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2008.
Gitlitz, David M. Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
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.
———. The Jews in New Spain: Faith, Flame, and the Inquisition. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1970.
Toro, Alfonso. Los Judíos En La Nueva España. Mexico City: Archivo General de la Nación, 1982.