Easter and a bit of history

Christians began to call Jewish converts "the new Christians" in order to distinguish them from the "old Christians," that is, from themselves. Jewish converts to Christianity were derogatorily called "converts" or, worse still, "marranos," meaning "pigs".
The basic accusation was that these Jews were not real converts to Christianity, since they practiced Judaism clandestinely. And that actually used to be what happened. There were large numbers of Jews who appeared to be Christians but continued in secret with the practice of Judaism.

All over the American continent there are people descended from Spanish or Portuguese settlers who have strange customs that they cannot explain. For example, despite being Catholic, on Friday night they go to the attic to light candles. They don't know the origin of the custom, but they do it anyway. It is clear that these people are descended from Jews who pretended to be Christians but continued to practice Jewish rituals clandestinely.
The aim of the Inquisition was to find these people, torture them until they admitted their crime and then kill them.

The use of the capirote or coroza was prescribed in Spain and Portugal by the holy office of Inquisition. Men and women who were arrested had to wear a paper capirote in public as sign of public humiliation. The capirote was worn during the session of an Auto-da-fé. The colour was different, conforming to the judgement of the office. People who were condemned to be executed wore a red coroza. Other punishments used different colours.

During Easter and other festivities like November 1st "new christians" lived in terror because they were often victims of catholic fanatism and usually enclose themselves home not to be seen, hoping no fanatic group would pretext anything to go after them.

Credits: By Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición - Enciclopedia Española, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2448614
www.aishlatino.com/judaismo/historia/curso-rapido/La-Inquisicion.html

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IN OUR PRESENT TIMES WERE INTOLERANCE IS RAISING UP AGAIN WE SHOULD LOOK BACK AT HISTORY AND DO WHAT WE CAN IN ORDER TO AVOID SUCH A DARK FUTURE