THE FIRST JESUITS AND THE REFORM RELATIONS TO JEWS

Abstract

The article points to a significant reform in the womb of the Catholic Church in the middle of the 16th century, which sought to change the relationship of the Church to the Jews and especially to the Jewish converts not only in Spain where they were subjected to strict discrimination.

Keywords

• Converts
• religious racism
• the Jesuit Order
• Ignatius of Loyola
• reform
• Jesuits
• Diego Lainez
• Everard Mercurian
• Spain.