THE HOLY CHILD OF THE GUARD RITUAL CRIME

 

Sunday, September 25, 2022

 

Today the Toledo church celebrated the commemoration of the murder of the Santo Niño de la Guardia whom Yosef Franco and Benito de Santamaría with other converts and practitioners of mosaicism laid their hands on the Door of Forgiveness of the Toledo Cathedral and murdered him in a simulation of the passion the day of Good Friday.

 The boy was the son of Alonso de Pasamonte, a water carrier, and his wife, Engracia, who practiced prostitution. The spell was held in the town of Tembleque. The captors extracted the boy's heart and, mixing its ashes with a consecrated host provided by the sacristan of the main church of La Guardia, a Judaizer, they scattered it around the place to attract a curse against the Christians.

In the annals of the diocese of Toledo, there is talk of a very long process initiated by the inquisition of Salamanca in 1476 and that lasted until 1491 with the death in the brazier of Ávila of only one of the accused, the sacristan who provided the bleeding form to those of the had

 All the other members of Yosef Franco's family were sentenced or had died. A fact refuted by historians Joseph Pérez and Suarez Fernández, who affirm without agreeing that nine Judaizers were burned during the process.

 The process had a long impact throughout Spain and must have been decisive in moving the Catholic Monarchs to the decree of Expulsion. In my Segovian childhood I heard about the imprisonment of Franco in the prison near the church of the corpus where another ritual crime had taken place that gave rise to the miracle of the host that rose through the sky of Segovia and went to the convent of Saint Stephen. Old stories. The fourteenth, the Jews, the sacrilegious mockery.

Castile in its stewardships did not hide the converse root and the new Christians mocked the dogma of transubstantiation. Ritual crime was present throughout the Middle Ages. In Zaragoza it is also said that the Jews crucified an altar boy from the Seo Santo Dominguito del Val and murdered San Pedro de Arbués when he was celebrating mass.

 I neither remove nor put nor king. Do not accuse me of being an anti-Semite but the facts are stubborn and I know what many ignore and these facts speak to me of the converted and fanatical character of the Spanish Inquisition. They speak of the Spanish Inquisition and I would rather say the Jewish Inquisition whose ferule I suffered throughout my days and today with the war in Ukraine is more staunch than ever. May God forgive the people of Israel.