I wrote ROCAMORA because I am interested in little known people who led interesting lives.
Vicente de Rocamora, 1601-1684, was the Dominican Confessor for Infanta María, sister of Philip IV of Spain, when she was a teen to age 23 and he only five years older. She honored him, showered him with gifts, confessed several times a week, and remembered him fondly after she wed the future Holy roman Emperor.
At age 42, Rocamora disappeared from court, reappeared in Amsterdam, and declared himself to be a Jew. He went to medical school and married a 25 year old after he received his license to practice at age 46. She gave him nine children over the next eleven years.
No book, monograph, or article in any respected journal has been published about him based on my research and that of others on my behalf.
Rocamora is mentioned only in sentences and a paragraph or two at most in books about Jews who left Spain and Portugal in the 16th and 17th centuries and others about the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam.
I had fun filling in the huge gaps in his life with romance, swordplay, and intrigues.
ROCAMORA is now available at Amazon and B&N on line and to be ordered form your bookseller through Ingram/Books in Print.
Vicente de Rocamora, 1601-1684, was the Dominican Confessor for Infanta María, sister of Philip IV of Spain, when she was a teen to age 23 and he only five years older. She honored him, showered him with gifts, confessed several times a week, and remembered him fondly after she wed the future Holy roman Emperor.
At age 42, Rocamora disappeared from court, reappeared in Amsterdam, and declared himself to be a Jew. He went to medical school and married a 25 year old after he received his license to practice at age 46. She gave him nine children over the next eleven years.
No book, monograph, or article in any respected journal has been published about him based on my research and that of others on my behalf.
Rocamora is mentioned only in sentences and a paragraph or two at most in books about Jews who left Spain and Portugal in the 16th and 17th centuries and others about the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam.
I had fun filling in the huge gaps in his life with romance, swordplay, and intrigues.
ROCAMORA is now available at Amazon and B&N on line and to be ordered form your bookseller through Ingram/Books in Print.
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