El Santo Oficio plot
Gaspar de Carvajal, a Dominican, has not seen his family since he was sent away from religious life at the age of 10. He attends his father's funeral, where he finds that the body has been washed and then buried in a shroud and without a coffin. Gaspar tells his confessor that he suspects that his family of Jews converted to Catholicism still follows the old customs. Father Lorenzo says this case should be brought before the Inquisition. Alonso de Peralta, Chief Inquisitor of New Spain, has the Carvajal family arrested on the basis of their son's testimony…