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
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" i.e. "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)
Sephardic Jews
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Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsu
Sephardic boy reading the Torah
Statue of Maimonides in Córdoba
Observing the Havdalah ritual, 14th-century Spain
Windows and decorative reliefs of the Synagogue of El Tránsito, Toledo, constructed circa 1350.