"Felices hombres los que pueblan estos desiertos, distantes del tumulto, exentos de los vaivenes y a cubierto de las inconstancias, tan comunes en este siglo"
San Simeón el Loco
Saint Juan de Ribera urged Phillip III to expel the Moroccans from Spain, even though they had converted to Catholicism. He also recommended that Moroccans be should enslaved and used on galleys ‘without any scruples of conscience’
Phillip took his advice and deported 300,000 Moroccans from Spain.
What went wrong?