Spanish Inquisition 1478 1834 Information It took place
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Spanish Inquisition 1478 -1834
Information • It took place in the 12 th to 19 th Centuries • Used by the Catholic Church and Monarchs. • Used to purify the people of Spain. – Started when Spain was a young country. • The HERETICS were those who were persecuted… (those who were NOT Catholic) – Non-Catholics – Jews – Muslims
Information • 5000 people were killed • Based on ANCIENT Roman Law. • Monarchies made each religious group they were against be deported from the country (banished) • Spanish Law considered Catholics to be SUPERIOR. • One of several Inquisitions throughout history.
Torture • TORTURES: – Starving – Stretching – Holding Fluids (drinking and not allowing them to pee) – Strapado (weights on the ankles and then lifted from the arms…. ) – Cut off extremities • Torture was used to get confessions: – Wanted them to denounce their religion and say Catholicism was the only TRUE religion. – People confessed their sins to not be tortured anymore----even if they were lies.
Ended • Ended in 1834 with Queen Elizabeth II. • She banished the practice…
Spanish Jews pleading before King Ferdinand Queen Isabella, while grand inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada argues for their expulsion from Spain, in a painting by Solomon A. Hart.
St. Dominic Presiding at an Auto-da-Fé, panel by Pedro Berruguete, c. 1503; in the Prado, Madrid.
Suspected Protestants being tortured as heretics during the Spanish Inquisition.
