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There was a Jew named Machabeus, he lived in Italy during the late 14th century. He worked as a moneylender, a job all Jews were force to work in, most of the Italian Christians thought of Machabeus as stingy and corrupted like any other Jew they meet. But they did not know Machabeus that well; he was caring and considerate, and despised working as a lender, pious as well as generous, and he had a loving fondness for children. He would even tell them stories from his youth. But he had no children of own for he was a widower and barren. One evening, he found a dying nun carrying a 3 year-old boy, she explained to him that the child was hers and he was the son of a Monk who raped her. She died of cold and hunger. Machabeus took the child in and raised him as his own, calling him Joseph. Joseph would grow to become a father and a nobleman, by this time Machabeus took in a young girl abandoned by her mother. Years later, one of Machabeus clients wanted his adopted daughter and jewels for himself. He seduced, jilted and then murdered her. This also happened with the Joseph, his father-in-law found out of his adoption and thought he was a Jew, he killed Joseph and his wife and his grandchild for fear of religious conflicts. Machabeus learned all of this and cried his heart out, he ran away from the City, broke away from his faith and joined some Mediterranean Pirates. He and his Pirates sacked the city that destroyed him. His motivations were done out of anger but mostly despair.