This is a painting of the Jesuits in Japan that made up that bullshit Yasuke story.
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During and after the reconquista, the Castillian and Argonese monarchy banned Judaism and forced them all to convert to Catholicism or face deportation. This was one of the reasons for the founding of the Inquisition, to ensure the 'Converso's' were being truthful with their conversions. The founder and superior of the Jesuit order was a converso, and had secretly remained faithful to Judaism. The Jesuits eventually started banning converso's after pressure from the Castillian monarchy, but a large chunk of its missionaries were of jewish origin.
Are you talking about Ignatius? He was a soldier and, I think, nobility. I have no love for Jesuit, but I don't think Ignatius was a converso.
I only skimmed the text from one of the books I have on spain and got it a little wrong :
"The Society's founder and its first Superior General Ignatius Loyola came from a converso family and that he had wished he had been Jewish to have the honor of being from the same race as Jesus and the Virgin Mary."
Reads to me that he may not have been a converso himself but definitely from a family of them, and had sympathy with Jews.
I've never read anything about Ignatius being a converso, or from a converso family.
He's always been well known as a Basque. As were many early Jesuits (the most notorious being St. Francis Xavier).
Both on his maternal and paternal sides he came from low Basque nobility. His father's family even had a Etxe (an ancient basque manor, where the core of a clan was based).