| The Inquisition worked in large part to ensure the orthodoxy of ex-Jewish converts and their descendants known as conversos, or marranos. |
| Some of these conversos continued to practice their tradition in hiding. |
| In addition, Crypto-Jews and Conversos are found in New England, Brazil, the Cape Verdes, and elsewhere. |
| The concept is a recurring motif in the history of Lusitanian conversos since the fifteenth century. |
| He founded settlements with other conversos that would later become Monterrey. |
