Peasant Woman: Your Holiness, we, my sort of people, were not granted access to these great places, even though we did witness the splendid ceremonies that took place around them, we were wholly Catholic as well. For, though, I am a peasant worker, a laborer of the fields, I am proud to say that I also am from pure blood. The convertos were not among us, even though I work alongside many of them. The convertos paid the price of their impure heritage. During the era of the Spanish inquisition, nobles and peasants alike were all thought to have come from impurity at one point, but this is now thought untrue. The Inquisition's courts, which were numerous, persecuted peoples of all ranking they thought were heretical or just impious. I must admit, that there were those who followed you for their benefit. Many merchants who wanted to advance into the nobility left the manufacturing business of Spain which left a great many people to join holy orders as you said. The flight to the religious orders came to signify a devastation in the economy, whether it is recognized or not. We, I must say, the poor, were not forgotten by these monasteries and convents. We received soup often from them and they held their arms open to our sick. After all, it was the Christian doctrine to attend to the poor. Unfortunately, the ever upwardly mobile middle classes forgot this and often exploited us