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plotted a conspiracy to destabilize the state and one of its leaders was the father of Susona. The conspirators met at the home of Diego Susón to plot the spread of their plans, including the release of prisoners to create disorder, benefit the Muslim powers, and carry out violent uprisings in major
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Susona suffered great guilt for having betrayed her father and hid herself in a convent. On the death of Diego Susón, she requested her head to be hung from the door of her house in the Barrio Santa Cruz Seville, to remind people of her betrayal. However, the head decomposed and was replaced by an
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Jews were an oppressed minority in Seville in the late Middle Ages and in 1391 a violent pogrom in the Jewish quarter (la Judería) reduced the Jewish population of 500 families by two thirds through forced conversions, expulsion and murder. In 1478 the
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In an attempt to secure their continued existence and regain their previous standing in Spanish life, around 1480, the Jews in
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However, Susona feared the direction the conspiracy was unfolding, she told everything to her young husband Christian.
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was a young Jewish convert from Seville and features in a legend. She was the daughter of don Diego Susón a Jewish
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was founded in Spain to uphold religious orthodoxy in the Spanish realm and to monitor and prevent
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from engaging in Jewish practices, which, as Christians, they were supposed to have given up.
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Susona the beautiful commemorated in a tile of a roundabout Maria Luisa Park in Seville, Spain
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oil lamp. Subsequently, the lamp was changed to a tile on which her skull is displayed.
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and is drawn by Enrique Orcel in the Factory of Manuel Ramos Rejano.
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Christian went to the chief assistant of the city of Seville, don
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of Seville, Spain. The tile is based on a painting by
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José María de Mena (1987) . Plaza & Janes (ed.).
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