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1-514: The neofiti (English: Neophytes ) were a group of Italian anusim , also known as crypto-Jews , living in Southern Italy . The neofiti were descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Roman Catholicism in 1493. They continued to secretly practice certain elements of Judaism, as did many of their descendants. In the 1490s the Spanish Inquisition ruthlessly hunted