Confession
I admit my guilt . . . in that I was told of a maiden who was [there] the daughter of Juan Estevan who had ascended to heaven and was approached there by an angel, and how she had told of the many marvelous things she had seen there and how Elijah was due to come and prophesy and the Messiah would come to take the conversos to the Promised Land…
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