The Inquisition and Catholism
Introduction.
The Spanish Inquisition or also known as the Court of the Holy Office was an institution that was created in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs to maintain religious unity within their kingdoms and fight against the retracting of their religion and later against heresy. Against any deviation of true faith (Catholic faith) had a life of about 350 years and at the end of the 18Finally died of old age in the nineteenth century.
The inquisitorial institution however is not a Spanish invention as many people think but inevitably people associate it with Spain, this has an explanation, how we will see later part of the Spanish black legend.
The Inquisition was born in France Catarism is the doctrine of the cataros or albigenses called by the city of Albi a religious movement of a Gnostic nature that extended by Western Europe in the middle of the 10th century praised to settle around the twelfth century had influences of ManichaeismWith its two opposite forces, good and the evil represented clearly with Jesus against Satan, the Catholic Church considers the doctrine of the tasks as heretical.
Thus the established medieval Inquisition was born 1184 by papal bullThrough the Albigense crusade, the Inquisition Failure because there was no central authority since it was administered by local bishops, so Pope Gregory IX created the Pontifical Inquisition in 123.
Developing.
The papal inquisition directed by it by trusting society to the order, begging of the Dominicans founded by Santo Domingo de Guzmán Pontifical function especially in southern France in northern Italy in Spain there was the crown of Aragon but not in that ofCastile.How was the Inquisition born? Spanish twentieth century of the Middle Ages had occurred in the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula a relatively peaceful coexistence but not free of incidents between Muslim and Jewish Christians.
The Jews were a minority group, at the end of the 14th century in some places in Spain. Subsequently, the Jews when persecuted make the decision to become the Catholic religion, everything transcurred normally until the Pope suspected that not all conversions were totally legitimate so the Catholic Monarchs decide that the Inquisition in Castill is introduced.
The Pope on the other hand gives the consent in 1478 by decree of a bull, years later the Inquisition in the first car of faith was also installed in 1481 where 6 people were burned at the stake, the Inquisition began to work withForce among the victims of the first year was Diego Suzon who was a Jew with a lot) Naturally before everything confiscated and passed to the Church that were the cars of faith.
A public act organized by the Inquisition and what began as a religious act to atoneHe saw that the king went to these events. Today the Inquisition is very bad view but at that time the cars of faith were extraordinarily popular especially in the 16th century.
Actually, the defendants were not executed but they were given a small torture, death did not actually executed in these acts itself, but those who convicted of death who appeared dressed in the traditional San Benito were delivered to the secular arm in charge of executingThe sentence in a close place in the afternoon or night without any theater and without the presence of the authorities. They were mounted on donkeys and fired to those who manage to escape from the bonfire for having fled or died during interrogations were burned in effigy through a doll the size of a human being that represented them.
As the number of inquisitors were increasing, the designation of a general inquisitor for the Crown of Castile and Aragon was necessary that they had Centralized the direction of the Holy Office in a person appointment corresponded to the father although it was the kings in practice who proposed the name The problem of the Jews was not fixed with the Inquisition finally 1492 The Catholic Monarchs decreed the expulsion of the Jews of Spain through the Granada’s trade with the purpose according to the decree to prevent them from influencing the Judeoconvers who embraced Christianity called new Christians in other countries in Europe such as France England had made similar expulsions, the reasons were not only religious there were also an attempt to restore social order replaced the Jews and were allowed to emigrate r.
Virtually all of their possessions and the kings had to enter the taxes of this minority, although the loss was the human capital to the Jews were also allowed to become the Catholic faith the official faith, they wanted to abandon more or less half of aroundOf 150 thousand Jews according to the most reliable sources to the Judeoconversos, many of them were called to practice their religion in a clandestine way in the first years of the Holy Office and the inquisitors did not pay attention to the heresy in general, they were especially interestedin watching the Judeoconverses. The Muslims continued to fully enjoy religious freedom but for a short time when the inquisitors arrived in a city read the edict (a statement that clarified the faith they had in a certain place) of faith that was a long relationship of all ethical beliefs and behaviors belowThose who had committed heresy are invited to denounce.
In other places until 1500 there was a period of grace a period of between 30 or 40 days during which the heretic would not be punished with severe penalties, a metal payment was enough for converts, they were given the possibility of voluntarily submitted to some orThey even practiced their religion the secret.
Years later a hard persecution of converts would begin that had not received the periods of grace began a real collective terror, the greatest activity of the Holy Office was concentrated in the first years where authentic struggles were made without convincing tests with testimonies manySometimes inconsistent based on rumors although it must.
Much of which the Inquisition is usually around in the collective imaginary did not kill dozens of millions of people not even millions.processes that historians thoroughly investigate the different documents on the Inquisition.
In 1517 and the Church was divided into two by the Protestant reform Carlos First of Spain that happened to the Catholic Monarchs and ending the titles of his father Felipe the beautiful married with Juana la Crazy becoming the most powerful man on the planet for the time alsoHe was elected as a defender of Catholic Christianity by declaring Lotero as the Protestants, however they had a very powerful weapon to fight the most powerful man in the world, propaganda with the Gutenberg printA Guillermo Protestant leader from Holland in Spanish The Inquisition is to consider something inhuman and monstrous religious in all European corners John Fox also contributed to increasing the Spanish black legend in part thanks to the torture and ill -treatment that illustrates it.
conclusion.
The entire chapter of the Spanish Inquisition The Inquisition after a period of tranquility focus to be persecuted practices of Protestants and people who did not agree either religious or were somehow tortured by false testimony and other crimes such as blasphemy Bigamia sodomy or witchcraft, it should be clarified that the Moors were Muslims who were necessarily forced to become Christianity the Spanish Inquisition, of course, seen centuries later, it seems to us a barbarity, of course it is unforgivable some history is how we have seen was much less guarantee than today’s courts in Day was the king who had to confess an alleged crime activated by another person a secret crime that was not communicated to the detaine This seems like a huge advance for the time desd and the prisons of the Inquisition or Inquisitors were better the treatment than in ordinary secular prisons many of those detainees in prisons declared blasphemous so that they can be judged by the court of the Holy Office in order to pass to their decorous and human prisons than the others.
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