1 ene 589 año - 3rd Council of Toledo:589 AC Christians Ban Jewish Practices: Jews flees to North Africa.

Descripción:

"Spain took the lead in Jewish persecutions and maintained its odious distinction for centuries. Henceforth there is no lac of historic material concerning the Jews in Spain. But, alas, until the time of the conquest of Spain by the Moors, it is not a history of achievement, it is a history of suffering--a martyrology. That martyrology began with the Third Counsil of Toledo (589 A.C.) at which Recaredo presented his abjuration of Arianism and was anointed as the first Catholic monarch of Spain. At the council laws were passed, of which the spirit may be comprehended from the following preamble and titles:
'Laws concerning the promulgation and ratification of the statues against the Jewish wickedness, and for the general extirpation of Jewish errors. That the Jews may not celebrate the Passover according to their usage; that the Jews may not contract marriage according to their own customs; that the Jews may not practice the Abrahamitic rite; that the Jews bring no actions against Christians; that the Jews be not permitted to bear witness against Christians'.

The Jews knew what they wanted; they paid a large sum of money, and the laws remained inoperative, till Recardo's successor, Sisebuto, ascended the throne. This king entered into a league with Emperor Heraclius, with the pious determination of 'extirpating the dangerous race throughout the world', and so he issued a law whuch gave the Jews a year's time to decide whether they would confess Christ, and be baptized, or be shaved, scourged, their property confiscated, and themselves forced to leave the country.

Ninety thousand are said to have submitted to baptism, but with them the enforced Christian rite was but a mask for their Jewish belief and practices. And they has ample cause for regretting their religious weakness, for baptism did not secure them from new indignities and humiliation. They were despised for their apostasy and their property was taken from them as if they had not complied with the king's edict. Thousands upon thousands fled to the Northern coasts of Africa, and with them fled prosperity from the Gothic Kingdom.
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