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Tomás de Torquemada [a] OP (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), also anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Roman Catholic Dominican friar and first Castillian Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office, which was a group of ecclesiastical prelates created in 1478 and charged with the somewhat ill-defined task of "upholding Catholic religious orthodoxy" within the lands of the ...
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Maria is befriended by fellow prisoner Esmerelda, a confessed witch. Together they struggle to save themselves from the sinister Torquemada. Maria's husband Antonio breaks into the castle to rescue his innocent wife. He fails and is imprisoned for his actions. Torquemada decides to test a new torture device, the Pit and the Pendulum, on Antonio.
One “person of interest” was arrested after being caught on video holding a blowtorch near the source of the Kenneth Fire. The fire spanned more than 1,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura ...
Grand Inquisitor (Latin: Inquisitor Generalis, literally Inquisitor General or General Inquisitor) was the highest-ranked official of the Inquisition.The title usually refers to the inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, in charge of appeals and cases of aristocratic importance, even after the reunification of the inquisitions.
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ICE made 33,000 arrests last year in total, DHS sources said. The staggering uptick in busts means ICE has had to scramble to find more space to detain the illegal migrants targeted by Trump’s ...
Torquemada is an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about Tomás de Torquemada and the Inquisition in Spain. It criticized religious fanaticism and fanatical catholicism . It was first published in 1882, as a protest against antisemitic pogroms in Russia at the time.