| Summary: | This article will focus on the work carried out by Fray Hernando de Talavera in his attempt to create a transformed Hispanic Society by means of homogenizing processes which would succeed in unifying the social fabric of the population. The first archbishop of Granada carried out this project working intensely on the catechism which enabled him to eliminate the categories of the “old” and “new” Christians, in order to create “active” Christians, being loyal subjects who would accept the respective characteristics on the path to unification. It was a drawn out task which through a social-religious approximation, tried to influence the social-cultural and political balances of the Catholic Kings monarchy. It was a complicated educational and mediatic work carried out by paying special attention to the catechesis of women and children, who took the main role in the process of creating “real” Christians and not lineage ones.
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