De Aragao, Fernao Ximenes. Triunfo de religiao Catholica contra a pertinacia do Judaismo, ou compendio de verdadeira fé [”Triumph of the Catholic Religion Against the Persistence of Judaism, or Compendium of the True Faith.”]

(INQUISITION).

Antonio Pedrozo Galram

Lisbon

1752

Third edition.

M. Kayserling, Geschichte der Juden in Portugal (1876), 293; Kayserling, Bibl, 114.

Archdeacon of Braga, De Aragao (d. 1630) sought out for attack those Portuguese-Jewish converts to Christianity who secretly remained faithful to the Jewish religion. In 1625 appeared his book Doutrina Catholica para instrução e confirmação dos fieis, extinção das seitas superticiosas e em particular do Judaismo (“The Catholic Doctrine for the Instruction and Admonition of the Faithful, and the Extinction of Idolatrous Sects and in Particular that of Judaism.”) It was was reissued in 1628 under the title Extincao do Judaismo (“The Extinction of Judaism”), and again in 1752 in the present version.