A few years later there was a massive Jewish emigration out of France. In 1290 King Edward I of England issued an edict banishing the Jews. This decision, however, must be viewed in its proper context. They are overshadowed, in the estimation of revisionist historians, by her decision to expel the Jews from Spain. In the forty years of her reign with Ferdinand of Aragon magnificent achievements were attained. When Isabel was proclaimed Queen in Segovia on December 13, 1474, she consecrated her Kingdom to God. Isabel of Castile and the Expulsion of the Jews The different Spanish Kingdoms had indeed a right and obligation to recover the lands that had been unjustly taken by the Arab invaders. The Spaniards were engaged in a crusade, which is a just war in which the participants receive spiritual benefits, a war sanctioned by ecclesiastical authority that granted remission of sins to those taking part in it. That is a total misstatement of the facts, since those wars were not meant to convert anyone by force, but rather to recover lands that had been unjustly taken over by Muslims. Some have stated that both the Crusades in the Holy Land and the reconquest in Spain were anti-Christian because they entailed the propagation of religious faith by the violence of arms.
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The efforts of Christians in Spain to free themselves from Islamic domination (which began in the eighth century) have been denounced and distorted by revisionist liberal historians. It is useful to consider those aspects of the history of Spain that have been the focus of the Black Legend. The Black Legend is "an atmosphere created by the fanatic accounts of Spain which have been published in almost all countries grotesque descriptions which are constantly being made of the character of Spaniards as individuals and collectively the negation, or at least, the systematic ignorance of whatever is favorable and worthy of honor in the various manifestations of culture and art the accusations which are always being launched against Spain are based upon events which are exaggerated, badly interpreted, or totally false." 2 This has created all sorts of negative stereotypes that have been reinforced by the media particularly Hollywood.
They evidently believe it would have been preferable to leave the indigenous paganism with its idolatrous and bloody cults undisturbed and without the preaching of the Gospel. They have led protest movements against the celebrations of the Fifth Centennial observing the discovery and conquest of America. 1 Regrettably, even today many priests and religious of the Church have accepted totally or partially the Black Legend against Spain. In that region political "adulthood" in the early nineteenth century was grounded in a rationalist ideology that repudiated the Hispanic heritage. Even in Latin America, the influence of the so-called "Enlightenment" movement (largely directed against the Catholic faith) led to a type of Black Legend that was used to justify the aspirations of political independence from Spain. The Black Legend was fanned largely by Protestant and liberal ideology and, particularly in the twentieth century, the Marxist re-interpretation of history. The effect is subtle but too often ends by Catholics then doubting the truth of the Faith. It seeks to instill in Catholics a sense of embarrassment and shame about the way in which their ancestors lived and practiced their faith. A current example of these attacks is Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code, a malevolent cocktail of fake scholarship, lies and half-truths.
The Black Legend seeks to throw discredit upon the Faith by building biases and prejudices against Catholicism. It is not an isolated case other Catholic countries like Italy, Ireland and Poland have had their reputations smeared for their adhesion to the Faith.
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