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Auto-Da-Fé

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Or Act of Faith, a ceremony held by the court of the Inquisition in Spain, preliminary to the execution of a heretic, in which the condemned, dressed in a hideously fantastic robe, called the San Benito, and a pointed cap, walked in a procession of monks, followed by carts containing coffins with malefactors' bones, to hear a sermon on the true faith, prior to being burned alive; the most famous auto-da-fé took place in Madrid in 1680.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Auto-Da-Fé'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/auto-da-fac.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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