Rosa’s Reviews > The Heretic: a historical thriller exploring the conflicts between Catholics, Muslims and Jews set in Spain in the years before the Spanish Inquisition > Status Update

“The Church’s official persecution of Jews, which began in the first years of Christianity and continued relentlessly through the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and beyond, ultimately provided the framework which led to the yellow badges and concentration camps of the 20th century.”

"I have written to His Holiness Pope Sixtus IV seeking permission to institute an Inquisition in the kingdom of Castile."

They printed fifty copies in five hours. The first Hebrew press run was complete.