Bishops in Tortosa saved some assimilated Morisco families from expulsion.

Evidence

Yet there were at least a few such cases of apparently genuine conversions. Recent investigations (e.g., Ferrer 1994, 42–53) have brought to light information about the way in Tortosa the bishop made it his business, when the end came, to save from expulsion a number of families held by their neighbors to be good Christians. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1158

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