Justa Méndez

• General Notes
  • p. 216-9.  born in Seville to Portuguese.  Children:  Luis Perez Roldan, Isabel Nunez, and Francisca Nunez.  All of her descendants, "were directed into the observance of the Mosaic laws.  Called a sincere converso "dog".  She espoused that the Messiah would be born to Ines Pereira.  p. 217.  The whole ceremony of Pereira standing on the table and people praying around it with candles on it.  p. 218.  Liebman see acculturation, especially of Maya custom.  When she died, "they threw freshly slaughtered meat and fish under the bed in which she had died."  p. 219, see Liebman note 9.