The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, volume 3
The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, volume 3
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Lea has given: The Moriscoes; Studies in Church History; History of Auricular onfesslon; Indulg-ences in Latin Church; a Historical Sketch of Sacer- dotal Celibacy; Superstition and Force, etc. Digitized by VjOOQIC 204 The Quarterly Journal quemaderos, to be burned alive.^ Thru the Holy Inquisition, its Ximenes, Albas^ and Torquemados, the flames of the church were richly fed in those good days of religious supremacy. It was a popular delight; eager spectators flocked hither from the ends of th...e Spanish realm. The victims, clothed in the sambenito — a yellow shroud of infamy, were to be burned, strangled, or otherwise executed in public. This wholesale persecution by their Christian majesties reached apalling figures. Ward^ quoting Galton, says: "The Spanish nation was drained of its brains at the rate of looo persons annually, for the three centuries between 1471 and 1781. . . ." The act- ual data during those 300 years are 32,cxx> burned alive, 17,000 burned in efiigy, and 291,000 condemned to various terms of im- prisonment, and other penalties.
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