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Saint Dominic anachronistically presiding over an auto de fe, by Pedro Berruguete (around 1495) [1]. An auto-da-fé (/ ˌ ɔː t oʊ d ə ˈ f eɪ, ˌ aʊ t-/ AW-toh-də-FAY, OW-; from Portuguese auto de fé) or Spanish: auto de fe ([ˈawto ðe ˈfe]) meaning 'act of faith'; was the ritual of public penance, carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries, of condemned heretics and apostates ...
Florida Meaning land of flowers, Florida's verdant landscape was discovered by Ponce de León on Easter Sunday. The Pascua Florida holiday in early April commemorates this discovery, during the season when flowers are abundant across Florida. Montana from Latinized Spanish meaning "mountainous", also in Spanish "montaña" is the name of "mountain"
The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 to keep Catholic orthodoxy. The first auto-da-fé took place in Seville in 1481, when six conversos (Jews forcibly converted to Christianity) were burnt at the stake. In Goya's lifetime he would have been quite aware of the history and strong influence that the church held on Spanish society.
The sanbenito (Spanish: sambenito; [1] [2] Catalan: gramalleta, sambenet, Portuguese: sambenito) was a penitential garment that was used especially during the Portuguese and Spanish Inquisitions. It was similar to a scapular , either yellow with red saltires for penitent heretics or black and decorated with devils and flames for impenitent ...
the Hebrew letter fe; Fe (rune), the f-rune ᚠ of the Younger Futhark; FE-Schrift, a typeface used on vehicle registration plates in Germany; Province of Ferrara (ISO 3166-2:IT code) Flat Earth, a pseudoscientific theory; Formula E, a class of auto racing using electrically powered cars; Dominical letter FE, for a leap year starting on Tuesday
Santa Fe (/ ˌ s æ n t ə ˈ f eɪ, ˈ s æ n t ə f eɪ / SAN-tə FAY, - fay; Spanish:) is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County.With over 89,000 residents, [5] Santa Fe is the fourth-most populous city in the state, [6] and part of the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,162,523 in 2020.
Zozobra" is a Spanish word for anxiety, worry, or sinking and was chosen by Shuster and newspaper editor E. Dana Johnson after a trip they made to Mexico. It is said that the idea was influenced by Mexican cartonería ( papier-mâché sculpture), specifically the effigies exploded during the burning of Judas that takes place on Holy Saturday or ...
Farolito, a common term in northern New Mexico, is a diminutive of the Spanish word farol, meaning "lantern". According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, farolito "apparently is a purely New Mexico word". [9] The spellings "luminary" [13] and "luminaries" [14] are often incorrectly used instead of luminaria and luminarias.