Confession
Beatriz Ramírez of Alcázar
1500/1501
I admit my guilt in that Christmas past, my said husband Juan Estevan told me how his daughter Inés had ascended to the sky and saw there the deceased and the living; and how the conversos were very well prepared [for the Messiah], and many other wonderful things that would have taken too long to recount. In effect, he told me that our salvation…
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