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"At his birth (1420, Torquemada, Castile, Spain) Tomás already had something to hide: his grandmother was a converso; a converted Jew; a New Christian.
Spain had more converted Jews than any other country; some had converted by choice, many more by force, but they were all regarded with suspicion and mistrust by the Old Christians. Some, called Marranos, were only nominally converted, and continued their Jewish customs in secret."

"Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection, the last of Tolstoy's major novels, tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting Tolstoy's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.

Também para mim esta era a menos desejada das hipóteses.
Não augura nada de bom para os próximos anos!

O sentimento dominante foi a surpresa, mas logo seguida de lembrança: Não é a Opus Dei a instituição mais influente no Vaticano de Hoje? Não era Rat. o candidato da Opus Dei. Tudo se conjuga, portanto...