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Auto-Da-Fé
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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(Portugese: act of faith)
Term applied to the public ceremony comprehending the official and ultimate announcement of a sentence of the Inquisition. Features of the ceremony included: a procession to a place specially designated in which those to be condemned as guilty of heresy, and those to be publicly reprimanded, participated; a religious discourse or exhortation followed by the swearing in of secular authorities who vowed obedience to the inquisitor in matters pertaining to putting down heresy; the "decrees of mercy" which comprised the remission, alleviation, etc., of sentences previously imposed, for those who had become reconciled with the Church; and finally, pronouncement of sentence on the guilty. These latter were then surrendered to the civilpower. The ceremony attained its height in the 16th century in Spain.
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Entry for 'Auto-Da-Fé'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/a/auto-da-fac.html. 1910.
