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(MAJORCA). Census chart of RAFAEL TORNIGÍ. MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN ON PARCHMENT. Majorca (Mallorca), 7th July, 1626. Notarial signature. 22 x 26.5 cm. According to Professor Antoni Picazo Muntaner, an expert on the Chuetas of Majorca: ”Rafael was the grandfather (or great-grandfather) of the Targongí's who were burned burned alive as Judaizers in 1691 by the Spanish Inquisition. The Tarongí family were deeply faithful to the religion of their ancestors. Francisca Tarongí had seven children: Catalina and Rafael Benito (who were burned alive), Isabel (who died by garrote and was then burned), William and Francisco (who fled the kingdom and were burned in effigy), Margarita and Francisca. In addition to those mentioned, there were other family members, indescribably brave souls, who had similar sorrows. The history of the Jews of the Isle of Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean off the Spanish coast, is especially tragic. The once glorious Jewish community came to a cruel end in 1435 when the Jews of the island were forcibly baptized. Nonetheless, as in mainland Spain, crypto-Judaic activity did not cease with conversion to Christianity. These Majorcan crypto-Jews were not referred to by the Castillian epithet ”Marranos, ” but rather by its Catalan equivalent ”Chuetas” (in Catalan orthography ”Xuetas”). (Both marrano and chua/xua mean ”pig”.) Centuries later, the descendants of these Jewish converts to Christianity were still restricted to living in the ”call” or former Jewish quarter, where they could easily be scrutinized by the ever-watchful eye of the Inquisition. By 1771 the Inquisition had sent a total of 594 Chuetas to the stake for the crime of ”Judaizing.” SEE ALSO: https://www.shavei.org/blog/2011/05/29/an-historic-condemnation-inquisition-palma-de-mall orca/. https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/CJ/article/view/60583 https://www.shavei.org/pt-pt/blog/2021/05/20/una-familia-nefasta-historia-de-la-familia-tarong/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Tarong%C3%AD FURTHER DETAILS, SUPPLIED BY PROF. ANTONI PICAZO MUNTANER, IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.