Sanbenito
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The sanbenito was a penitential garment that was used especially during the Portuguese and Spanish Inquisitions. It was similar to a scapular, either yellow with red saltires for penitent heretics or
A convicted heretic before the Inquisition, wearing a sanbenito and a capirote (Francisco de Goya)
The samarra
The fuego revolto
The sambenito
Spanish Inquisition
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The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478 and the first inquisitors, Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín, were appointed by the future Catholic M
Sanbenito
…Spanish: sambenito; Catalan: gramalleta, sambenet, Portuguese: sambenito) was a penitential garment that was used especially during the Portuguese and Spanish Inquisitions. It was similar to a scapular, either yellow with red saltires for penitent heretics or black and decorated with devils and flames for impenitent…
The Virgin of the Catholic Monarchs, 1491–1493. The Inquisitor, Torquemada, is behind King Ferdinand (left).
Torquemada is buried in the monastery of Saint Thomas at Ávila, and left his own epitaph Pestem Fugat Haereticam, meaning "drove away the pestilence of heresy".
Burning of heretics at stakes (auto-da-fé) in a marketplace during the Spanish Inquisition.
The burning of a Dutch Anabaptist, Anneken Hendriks, who was charged with heresy in Amsterdam (1571)