Painting depicting 'Auto-da-fé' during the Spanish Inquisition. An auto-da-fé was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition or the Portuguese Inquisition had decided their punishment.

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Painting depicting 'Auto-da-fé' during the Spanish Inquisition. An auto-da-fé was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition or the Portuguese Inquisition had decided their punishment.

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Photo credit: © World History Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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