Francisco Maldonado da Silva (Jewish name: Eliahu Hanazir; 1592 in Argentina – 23 January 1639, in Peru)[1] was an Argentine marrano physician who was burned at the stake with eleven other Jews in Lima, Peru, in the largest Auto-da-fé recorded in history.
Francisco was born in San Miguel de Tucumán to a healthy Argentine marrano family of Portuguese Jewish background.
After a few years he took a medical posting in Chile, during that time, he decided to assume fully his Jewishness and stop living as a Christian converse (marrano converso), regaining his family's depressed Jewish tradition by performing circumcision and adopting the name Eliahu Hanazir, also called popularly Eli Nazareno or Elijah the Nazarite.
[2][3] He grew his hair and beard and started signing his name "Heli Nazareo, unworthy servant of God of Israel, alias Silva".
He was held accountable for the heresy of honoring the "Law of Moses", totally objectionable to the Holy Inquisition.