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08-15-2004, 04:18 AM
The Alhambra Decree of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Note: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella are known as “the Catholics” because they were so devout. Isabella has recently come before the attention of even the present ultra-liberal Vatican as a potential candidate for beatification. The Alhambra Decree provides a model of saintly Catholic statesmanship, by which the Jews were for all time expelled from the realms of Spain. The deicidal Jews have the curse of Cain and of Judas; they are cursed to be perfidious traitors, enemies to all men, to be exiled and banished from all lands.
"And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made; taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; look you to it. Then cried all the people, and said, May his blood be on us, and on our children." (Saint Matthew 27)
Judas Iscariot, which was the traitor." (Saint Luke 6)
The Jews who both killed the Lord JESUS, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are enemies to all men; prohibiting us to speak to the Nations, that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end." (I Thessalonians 2)
One Catholic land after another was forced, by the constant and irrepressible reality of Jewish perfidy, to do its duty and to banish the Jews until they were expelled from most of Christendom prior to the Deformation which they perfidiously helped to start. It was essential to banish all the Jews for the survival and well-being of the Catholic Faith, against which the Jews are vicious enemies until the end. The Alhambra Decree relates how the Spanish Catholic kingdom was forced to gloriously do its Catholic duty against the Jews.
Would that God would so bless us unworthy Catholics as to liberate us today from Jewish perfidy!
The Alhambra Decree
KING FERDINAND AND QUEEN ISABELLA, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, King and Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon and other dominions of the crown - to the prince Juan, to dukes, marquees, counts, the holy orders, priors, knight commanders, lords of the castles, cavaliers, and to all Jews, male and female of whatever age, and to anyone else this letter may concern - health and grace unto you.
[Ghettos and the Holy Inquisition did not prevail to restrain perfidious Jewish aggression against the Church.]
You well know that in our dominion, there are certain bad Christians that judaised and committed apostasy against our Holy Catholic Faith, much of it because of communications between Jews and Christians. Therefore, in the year 1480, we ordered that the Jews be separated from the cities and towns of our domains and that they be given separate quarters, hoping that by such separation the situation would be remedied. And we ordered that and an Inquisition be established in our domains; and in twelve years it has functioned, the Inquisition has found many guilty Jews. Furthermore, we are informed by the Inquisition and others that the great harm done to Christians persists, and it continues because of the conversations and communications that they have with the Jews, the Jews trying by whatever means to subvert our Holy Catholic Faith and to draw the Christian Faithful away from their beliefs.
Jews instruct Christians in the ceremonies and observances of their Law, circumcising their children, and giving them books with which to pray, and declaring unto them the days of fasting, and meeting with them to teach them the histories of their Law, notifying them when to expect Passover and how to observe it, giving them the unleavened bread and ceremonially prepared meats. They instruct them as to what the Law of Moses would require them to abstain from, both with regard to food items and other things, making them believe that there is no other law or truth besides it. It is clear from all of this, on the basis of confessions from Jews as well as those perverted by them, that it has resulted in great damage and detriment of our Holy Catholic Faith.
[Jewish perfidy was not restrained by banishing all Jews from certain areas of Spain where their perfidy had been most active nor by punishing Jews.]
And although we knew that the true remedy of such damages and difficulties lay in the severing of all communications between the Jews and the Christians and in sending them forth from all our realms, we sought to content ourselves with ordering the Jews to leave all the cities and villages and places of Andalusia where it appeared that they had done major damage, believing that this would suffice so that those from other cities and villages and places in our realms and holdings would cease to commit the aforesaid.
[Jewish perfidy grows ever worse; the Jews are the principle cause of diabolical temptation and they must be banished for the salvation of the Faithful.]
And because we have been informed that neither this, nor the punishments inflicted on some of the Jews found very culpable in the said crimes and transgressions against our Holy Catholic Faith, has been a remedy to obviate and to correct such opprobrium and offense to the Christian Faith and Religion; and because every day it appears that the Jews increase in continuing their evil and harmful purposes wherever they reside and converse; and because there is no place left whereby to more offend against our Holy Faith: therefore, as much for those whom God has protected to this day as for those already affected by the Jews, it is left for this Holy Mother Church to mend and reduce the matter to its previous state inasmuch as, because of our frailty of humanity, it could occur that we could succumb to the diabolical temptation that continually wars against us so easily if its principal cause were not removed, by expelling the Jews from the kingdom.
[It is reasonable that the Jews be banished for their collective perfidy against the Church and the State.]
For whenever a grave and detestable crime is committed by a given group, it is reasonable that the group be dissolved or annihilated, the greater crimes and the lesser being punished together. Further, it is reasonable that those who pervert the good and honest people living in the cities and villages and who by their contagion could harm others, be expelled from the midst the people. And this is true again, especially with regard to the greater crimes, but also to the lesser crimes, which are of danger to the very State, Jewish subversion being dangerous and contagious.
[The monarchs and the wise and eminent men of their realm have agreed that the Jews must be forever banished from the lands.]
Therefore, with the council and advice of the eminent men and cavaliers of our kingdom, and of other persons of knowledge and conscience of our Supreme Council, after much deliberation, it is agreed and resolved that all Jews and Jewesses be ordered to leave our kingdoms, and that they never be allowed to return.
And we order in this edict that all Jews and Jewesses of whatever age that reside in our domain and territories leave with their sons and daughters, their servants and relatives, young and old, of whatever age, by the end of July of this year, and that they dare not return to our lands, not so much as to take a step on them nor trespass upon them in any other manner whatsoever. Any Jew who does not comply with this edict and is to be found in our kingdom and domains, or who return to the kingdom in any manner, will incur punishment by death and confiscation of all their belongings.
[No one is to try to hide or defend any Jews.]
We further order that no person in our kingdom of whatever station or of noble status hide or keep or defend any Jew or Jewess, either publicly or secretly, from the end of July onwards, in their homes or elsewhere in our realm, upon punishment of loss of their belongings, vassals, fortresses, and hereditary privileges.
[The Jews are to have to protection of the Law until the end of July.]
In order that the Jews may dispose of their houses and belongings in the given time period, for the present we provide our assurance of royal protection and security so that, until the end of the month of July, they may sell and exchange their belongings and furniture and other items, and to dispose of them freely as they wish. During the said time, no one is to do any harm or injury or injustice to their persons or to their goods, which would be contrary to the law, and which would incur the punishment that befalls those who violate our royal security.
Thus we grant permission to the said Jews and Jewesses to take their goods and belongings out of our realms, either by sea or by land, with the condition that they not take out either gold or silver or minted money or any other items prohibited by the laws of the kingdom.
[All are to cooperate with the Decree banishing the Jews or they will lose any property and office which they may have.]
Therefore, we order all councillors, justices, magistrates. cavaliers, shield-bearers, officials, good men of the city of Burgos and of other cities and villages of our realms and dominions, and all our vassals and subjects, that they observe and comply with this edict and all that is contained in it, and that they give all the help and favor that is necessary for its execution, subject to punishment by our sovereign grace and by confiscation of all their goods and offices for our royal statehouse.
And so that this may come to the notice of all, and so that no one may pretend ignorance, we order that this edict be proclaimed in all the plazas and usual meeting places of all cities. And we order that in the major cities and villages of the diocese, it be proclaimed by the town crier in the presence of the public scribe and that no one should do the contrary of what has been required of them, subject to punishment by our sovereign grace and deprivation of their offices and by confiscation of their goods.
And we further order that evidence be provided to the court, in the manner of signed testimony, regarding the manner in which the edict is being carried out.
Given in this city of Granada on the thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord JESUS Christ 1492.
AMEN!
All ye saintly monarchs, pray for us against the Jews!
W w w. F a t h e r F e e n e y. o r g
Note: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella are known as “the Catholics” because they were so devout. Isabella has recently come before the attention of even the present ultra-liberal Vatican as a potential candidate for beatification. The Alhambra Decree provides a model of saintly Catholic statesmanship, by which the Jews were for all time expelled from the realms of Spain. The deicidal Jews have the curse of Cain and of Judas; they are cursed to be perfidious traitors, enemies to all men, to be exiled and banished from all lands.
"And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made; taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; look you to it. Then cried all the people, and said, May his blood be on us, and on our children." (Saint Matthew 27)
Judas Iscariot, which was the traitor." (Saint Luke 6)
The Jews who both killed the Lord JESUS, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are enemies to all men; prohibiting us to speak to the Nations, that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end." (I Thessalonians 2)
One Catholic land after another was forced, by the constant and irrepressible reality of Jewish perfidy, to do its duty and to banish the Jews until they were expelled from most of Christendom prior to the Deformation which they perfidiously helped to start. It was essential to banish all the Jews for the survival and well-being of the Catholic Faith, against which the Jews are vicious enemies until the end. The Alhambra Decree relates how the Spanish Catholic kingdom was forced to gloriously do its Catholic duty against the Jews.
Would that God would so bless us unworthy Catholics as to liberate us today from Jewish perfidy!
The Alhambra Decree
KING FERDINAND AND QUEEN ISABELLA, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, King and Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon and other dominions of the crown - to the prince Juan, to dukes, marquees, counts, the holy orders, priors, knight commanders, lords of the castles, cavaliers, and to all Jews, male and female of whatever age, and to anyone else this letter may concern - health and grace unto you.
[Ghettos and the Holy Inquisition did not prevail to restrain perfidious Jewish aggression against the Church.]
You well know that in our dominion, there are certain bad Christians that judaised and committed apostasy against our Holy Catholic Faith, much of it because of communications between Jews and Christians. Therefore, in the year 1480, we ordered that the Jews be separated from the cities and towns of our domains and that they be given separate quarters, hoping that by such separation the situation would be remedied. And we ordered that and an Inquisition be established in our domains; and in twelve years it has functioned, the Inquisition has found many guilty Jews. Furthermore, we are informed by the Inquisition and others that the great harm done to Christians persists, and it continues because of the conversations and communications that they have with the Jews, the Jews trying by whatever means to subvert our Holy Catholic Faith and to draw the Christian Faithful away from their beliefs.
Jews instruct Christians in the ceremonies and observances of their Law, circumcising their children, and giving them books with which to pray, and declaring unto them the days of fasting, and meeting with them to teach them the histories of their Law, notifying them when to expect Passover and how to observe it, giving them the unleavened bread and ceremonially prepared meats. They instruct them as to what the Law of Moses would require them to abstain from, both with regard to food items and other things, making them believe that there is no other law or truth besides it. It is clear from all of this, on the basis of confessions from Jews as well as those perverted by them, that it has resulted in great damage and detriment of our Holy Catholic Faith.
[Jewish perfidy was not restrained by banishing all Jews from certain areas of Spain where their perfidy had been most active nor by punishing Jews.]
And although we knew that the true remedy of such damages and difficulties lay in the severing of all communications between the Jews and the Christians and in sending them forth from all our realms, we sought to content ourselves with ordering the Jews to leave all the cities and villages and places of Andalusia where it appeared that they had done major damage, believing that this would suffice so that those from other cities and villages and places in our realms and holdings would cease to commit the aforesaid.
[Jewish perfidy grows ever worse; the Jews are the principle cause of diabolical temptation and they must be banished for the salvation of the Faithful.]
And because we have been informed that neither this, nor the punishments inflicted on some of the Jews found very culpable in the said crimes and transgressions against our Holy Catholic Faith, has been a remedy to obviate and to correct such opprobrium and offense to the Christian Faith and Religion; and because every day it appears that the Jews increase in continuing their evil and harmful purposes wherever they reside and converse; and because there is no place left whereby to more offend against our Holy Faith: therefore, as much for those whom God has protected to this day as for those already affected by the Jews, it is left for this Holy Mother Church to mend and reduce the matter to its previous state inasmuch as, because of our frailty of humanity, it could occur that we could succumb to the diabolical temptation that continually wars against us so easily if its principal cause were not removed, by expelling the Jews from the kingdom.
[It is reasonable that the Jews be banished for their collective perfidy against the Church and the State.]
For whenever a grave and detestable crime is committed by a given group, it is reasonable that the group be dissolved or annihilated, the greater crimes and the lesser being punished together. Further, it is reasonable that those who pervert the good and honest people living in the cities and villages and who by their contagion could harm others, be expelled from the midst the people. And this is true again, especially with regard to the greater crimes, but also to the lesser crimes, which are of danger to the very State, Jewish subversion being dangerous and contagious.
[The monarchs and the wise and eminent men of their realm have agreed that the Jews must be forever banished from the lands.]
Therefore, with the council and advice of the eminent men and cavaliers of our kingdom, and of other persons of knowledge and conscience of our Supreme Council, after much deliberation, it is agreed and resolved that all Jews and Jewesses be ordered to leave our kingdoms, and that they never be allowed to return.
And we order in this edict that all Jews and Jewesses of whatever age that reside in our domain and territories leave with their sons and daughters, their servants and relatives, young and old, of whatever age, by the end of July of this year, and that they dare not return to our lands, not so much as to take a step on them nor trespass upon them in any other manner whatsoever. Any Jew who does not comply with this edict and is to be found in our kingdom and domains, or who return to the kingdom in any manner, will incur punishment by death and confiscation of all their belongings.
[No one is to try to hide or defend any Jews.]
We further order that no person in our kingdom of whatever station or of noble status hide or keep or defend any Jew or Jewess, either publicly or secretly, from the end of July onwards, in their homes or elsewhere in our realm, upon punishment of loss of their belongings, vassals, fortresses, and hereditary privileges.
[The Jews are to have to protection of the Law until the end of July.]
In order that the Jews may dispose of their houses and belongings in the given time period, for the present we provide our assurance of royal protection and security so that, until the end of the month of July, they may sell and exchange their belongings and furniture and other items, and to dispose of them freely as they wish. During the said time, no one is to do any harm or injury or injustice to their persons or to their goods, which would be contrary to the law, and which would incur the punishment that befalls those who violate our royal security.
Thus we grant permission to the said Jews and Jewesses to take their goods and belongings out of our realms, either by sea or by land, with the condition that they not take out either gold or silver or minted money or any other items prohibited by the laws of the kingdom.
[All are to cooperate with the Decree banishing the Jews or they will lose any property and office which they may have.]
Therefore, we order all councillors, justices, magistrates. cavaliers, shield-bearers, officials, good men of the city of Burgos and of other cities and villages of our realms and dominions, and all our vassals and subjects, that they observe and comply with this edict and all that is contained in it, and that they give all the help and favor that is necessary for its execution, subject to punishment by our sovereign grace and by confiscation of all their goods and offices for our royal statehouse.
And so that this may come to the notice of all, and so that no one may pretend ignorance, we order that this edict be proclaimed in all the plazas and usual meeting places of all cities. And we order that in the major cities and villages of the diocese, it be proclaimed by the town crier in the presence of the public scribe and that no one should do the contrary of what has been required of them, subject to punishment by our sovereign grace and deprivation of their offices and by confiscation of their goods.
And we further order that evidence be provided to the court, in the manner of signed testimony, regarding the manner in which the edict is being carried out.
Given in this city of Granada on the thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord JESUS Christ 1492.
AMEN!
All ye saintly monarchs, pray for us against the Jews!
W w w. F a t h e r F e e n e y. o r g