The files also record how the dead were mourned. Moixina and a close relative ate no meat on the day of a death in the family, because, as he explained, «the Jews did not eat meat on the day a child or relative of theirs died, nor for some days after».
Catalina Valls died around Lent. A fast was kept for her according to the Law of Moses. And her daughter, Úrsula Forteza, unmarried, had been keeping that Law for a year, «since her mother died». She did not receive it in the cradle. She began to believe beside her mother's grave.
Another witness remembered how it had reached him. He lived twenty-two months in Barcelona with his grandfather and his brother Joanot Cortés. One Thursday the grandfather told them to fast, «not eating all day until nightfall», and urged them never to tell anyone.
Faith was passed on in moments of loss and in a low voice, from grandparents to grandchildren, and not only in Majorca.
