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Spanish Inquisition records reveal two prosecutions in Spain and only a few more throughout the Spanish Empire. [109] In 1815, Francisco Javier de Mier y Campillo , the Inquisitor General of the Spanish Inquisition and the Bishop of Almería , suppressed Freemasonry and denounced the lodges as "societies which lead to atheism, to sedition and ...
The Mexican Inquisition was an extension of the events that were occurring in Spain and the rest of Europe for some time. Spanish Catholicism had been reformed under the reign of Isabella I of Castile (1479– 1504), which reaffirmed medieval doctrines and tightened discipline and practice.
The name connects the instrument to the Spanish Inquisition, although it was only used in certain regions, which were not primarily Spain nor as part of the Inquisition, but by Central European civil authorities (most notably Reformed Germany and the Bohemian Crown), New France, the Netherlands Antilles, the British Empire, and the United States.
In 1898, the United States achieved victory in the Spanish–American War with Spain, ending the Spanish colonial era. Spanish possession and rule of its remaining colonies in the Americas ended in that year with its sovereignty transferred to the United States. The United States took occupation of Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.
The Spanish Inquisition expanded to the Indies in 1565 and was in place by 1570 in Lima and Mexico City. It drew many colonial Spaniards into torture chambers. Native Americans were exempt. Sir Francis Drake's voyage, 1585–86. The crown expanded its global claims and defended existing ones in the Indies.
The Catholic Monarchs decided to introduce the Inquisition to Castile and requested the Pope's assent. On 1 November 1478, Pope Sixtus IV published the papal bull Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus, by which the Inquisition was established in the Kingdom of Castile; it was later extended to all of Spain. The bull gave the monarchs exclusive ...
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 da 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 ...
Many hundreds of missions, durable and ephemeral, created by numerous Catholic religious orders were scattered throughout the entirety of the Spanish colonies, which extended southward from the United States and Mexico to Argentina and Chile. The relationship between Spanish colonization and the Canonicalization of the Americas is inextricable.