thus giving rise to the so-called New Christians.

Nevertheless, historian A.J. Saraiva tells us that the community of former Jews was on its way to integration when on 9 April 1506 at Lisbon, a mob killed two thousands of New Christians, accused of being the cause of drought and plague that devastated the country. After the three days massacre, the king punished those responsible and renewed the rights that the Jews had before 1497, giving the New Christians