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236:(spouse of Maria de Cerqueira) and many others, all convicted of the crime of practicing Judaism. In the book “Portuguese Inquisition” we find the list of new Christians from the Azores, among them Dias Cerqueira, a farmer. With the discovery of the Americas, many of these ventured into the “
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Amarante”. His coat of arms being a "Golden
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