Danustouch
December 23rd, 2005, 10:29 AM
This was an amazing story! A priest in portugal has unearthed a secret synagogue used during medeivil times to hide those of the Jewish Faith who were being widely persecuted in that region at that time.
"He had studied the city's Jewish history and knew his parish had been a Jewish quarter in the 15th and 16th centuries. He also knew that, after they were forced to convert to Catholicism in 1496, many Jews privately kept their faith and worshipped in secret. "I suspected that false wall was hiding something," said Fr Moreira. "I knew there had to be some kind of Jewish symbol behind it."
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article334676.ece
"He had studied the city's Jewish history and knew his parish had been a Jewish quarter in the 15th and 16th centuries. He also knew that, after they were forced to convert to Catholicism in 1496, many Jews privately kept their faith and worshipped in secret. "I suspected that false wall was hiding something," said Fr Moreira. "I knew there had to be some kind of Jewish symbol behind it."
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article334676.ece