January 23: Lima, Peru: More than eighty New Christians were burned in this Auto Da Fe, including Francisco Maldonna da Silva (Elia Nazareno), the largest act of faith recorded in history. Da Silva learned Jewishness through his father, Diego Nunez da Silva, a Jewish physician. He was kidnapped and held for six years in the secret prisons of the Inquisition. The cause of his abduction was believed happen when he tried to convert his two sisters who converted to Catholicism and denounced him.