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Jewish Leaders Protest
Move To Beatify Isabella
New York (JTA) — A cam-
paign by the Spanish
Catholic Church to bestow
sainthood onQueen Isabella
I of Spain could cause a
dangerous breach in
Catholic-Jewish relations,
according to Jewish and
Catholic leaders.
"It is potentially divisive
issue, and has enormous
international implications,"
warned Rabbi A. James
Rudin, national director for
interreligious affairs at the
American Jewish Com-
mittee.
Rabbi Rudin is chairman
of a panel investigating the
issue that was set up by
IJCIC, the International
Jewish Committee on Inter-
religious Consultations,
which represents world
Jewry in contacts with the
Vatican.
Queen Isabella has been
nominated for veneration,
the first step toward sain-
thood, by conservative
elements within the Spanish
Catholic Church.
She is remembered as a
despot by both Jews and
Moslems, who suffered tor-
ture, forced conversion and
expulsion under her reign
from 1474-1504.
Her veneration "would be
a disaster for dialogue," ad-
mitted Dr. Eugene Fisher,
director for Catholic-Jewish
relations at the National
Conference of Catholic
Bishops, the organization
which represents 350
bishops in the United States.
"I don't think her cause
should be moved forward,"
Mr. Fisher said. "No matter
what one can say about her
personally, the symbolic
meaning of her reign as
queen was the expulsion of
the Jews, and that sym-
bolism is too massive in Jew-
ish history" for it to do
anything but "an incredible
amount of damage."
Queen Isabella's nomina-
tion has prompted an outcry
from Jewish leaders and
organizations around the
world, among them the
World Jewish Congress, the
International Jewish Com-
mittee for Sepharad '92, the
Union of Italian Jewish
Communities, the British
Council of Christians and
Jews and B'nai Brith
Canada.
"It is outrageous and
obscene, because that lady,
under any set of rules, does
not deserve sainthood,"
declared Andre Sassoon, vice
h president of the Interna-
tional Jewish Committee for
Sepharad '92 and the inter-
national secretary for the
World Sephardi Federation.
The Spanish Church offi-
cials who are promoting her
cause hope to have her ap-
proved by the Vatican by
1992, when the church will
celebrate 500 years of Chris-
tianity in the Americas.
Christianity was brought
to the "New World" by
Christopher Columbus,
whose voyage was financed
by Isabella and her husband,
Ferdinand, in 1492.
But 1992 is an important
anniversary to Jews, espe-
cially Sephardic Jews, for
another reason: It marks the
quincentennial of the edict,
signed by Isabella and Fer-
dinand, ordering Jews to
convert to Christianity or be
forcibly expelled.
About 400,000 Jews lived
in Spain at the time. Almost
half went into exile, and the
rest converted to Christiani-
ty or pretended to.
Many- of those who
pretended to convert but
secretly continued Jewish
practice, known as Mar-
ranos, were tortured and
burned at the stake during
the Inquisition, which was
instituted in all of Spain
under Isabella and Fer-
dinand's rule.
Spain's current monarch,
Juan Carlos, will formally
revoke the expulsion edict
on March 31, 1992, exactly
500 years after it was issued.
Sephardic Jews around the
world will use the occasion
to celebrate the rich cultural
heritage bestowed by the
Golden Age of Spanish
Jewry, which ended with the
decree.
The petition on behalf of
Isabella may have been
submitted to the Vatican at
least seven years ago, accor-
ding to Fisher.
It is not known exactly
how long her case has been
before the Vatican Con-
gregation for the Causes of
Saints, which considers
nominations.
The socialist Spanish
government established full
diplomatic relations with
Israel in January 1986 and
last February extended the
same legal status enjoyed by
Roman Catholics to Jews
and Protestants.
Those steps and the "mea
culpa" that Spain is offering,
along with King Juan
Carlos' revocation of the ex-
pulsion edict, send a positive
message.