In the first wave, in 1678 and 1679, the women confessed, begged for mercy and waited to be reconciled. While they waited, something happened that the tribunal would discover later.
They were held «in three rooms and a large hall», with the doors open. And there, one file says, they «again spoke to one another several times as observers of the said law», praising it and saying it was «better and safer». Another testimony says they gathered and declared themselves believers «for a long time, until they were reconciled».
The community rewove itself inside the prison, in the very months when it was performing its conversion.
Ten years later, that was the charge. Isabel Bonnín, Rafael Valls's wife, was accused of having «simulated and feigned» her 1679 penance, done «with the intent of deceiving the Tribunal, for fear of punishment», while keeping in her heart the Law of Moses, «in which they wished to live and die». That made her a relapsed heretic. And in the Majorca of 1691, a relapsed heretic could end up at the stake.
