The Holy Trade in Cuenca: the relation of the General Car of Faith of 1583

Abstract

The delation was the habitual way that used the Inquisition to condemn the culprits of practice of the crimes of heresy. From here, the interrogations, the jail, the torment and sorrow were working for the development of the final act, which was the Auto-da-fé. To outline the importance of the Auto-da-fé as the public ceremony of persons’ execution condemned for the Inquisition accused of heresy and other crimes. It was the most impressive of the ceremonies of the Holy Trade celebrated with great pomp and solemnity. The major square was based on a procession of the reprobates, led to a public square generally and on the pronunciation of a sermon, followed of the execution of the judgment, in which it could have condemned in the bonfire, function that realized the secular arm. These executions were realized both in the territories of Spain and Portugal and in his colonies.