In the summer of 1687, Rafael Cortés de Alfonso was dying. He was the man who, months earlier, had handed the Inquisition his reports on the Sagell Street community.
Pere Onofre Cortès, «Moixina», went to see him «on several days». He said so himself, later, before the tribunal. Alone with him, he urged him to stand firm in his belief in the God of Israel and the law He gave to Moses, to trust that the Great God of Israel would forgive his sins. And to pay no attention to the friars and priests who would come to help him die a good Christian death.
It is one of the hardest scenes in the whole archive to imagine: the secret teacher of the Law giving last comfort to his own informer. Nothing suggests Moixina knew who the man really was. When he got home, he told his wife, Juana Miró.
The spy died around September 1687. Moixina was arrested on 10 February 1688. He died at the stake on 1 May 1691; he repented at the end, which meant he was garroted before the fire.
