Moments in Time  Dona Teresa

In Her Own Voice - Dona Teresa Aguilera y Roche & Intrigue in the Palace of the Governors Details

 

Program: Moments in Time

Episode: Dona Teresa

The only woman in New Mexico arrested by the Inquisition on the account of secretly being Jewish. Learn the fascinating story of Dona Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of Santa Fe's colonial governor Don Bernardo Lopez de Mendizabal. While imprisoned in Mexico City she asks for a pen and paper and writes her defense laying bare what life was like in the Palace of the Governors at that time.

Duration: (6:16)
Premiere Date: 09/06/2010
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR


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