The Moriscos staged Christian processions in a failed appeal to stay

Evidence

With Salazar at Cieza, just outside the valley, the mountain folk knew that there was little hope left. They tried to impress him with their right to live where they always had done by conducting impressive Christian religious processions. To no avail. The only concession accorded to them was that as they were being hustled out with so little notice, they were allowed to appoint agents to sell their property for them after they had left, and then have the money remitted to them. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1536

Categorization

• QUESTION: Did these processions represent genuine conversion, or a performative claim the expellers themselves no longer credited? The bishop of Tortosa’s ‘ex-Moriscos’ hedging in para 1534 suggests even sympathetic clerics doubted it.
• FICTION: A scene of a mountain community performing the occupier’s own rituals as a last-ditch plea is a striking image of desperate performative assimilation.