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auto-da-fé 1. History a ceremony of the Spanish Inquisition including the pronouncement and execution of sentences passed on sinners or heretics 2. the burning to death of people condemned as heretics by the Inquisition How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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That's why the Catholic Church has survived the Auto-da-Fe, the Crusades, the Reformation, the Medici popes, and the good-old-boys network--and will survive until the end of time. How else to explain Ted Rall's astonishing, auto-da-fe performance on Minnesota Public Radio's Weekend America program on November 20? A refugee from the Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Esther Marchadi comes aboard the Santa Maria disguised as a Christian ship's boy, Pedro, and finds her adjustment to the ordinarily harsh shipboard life complicated by nightmare memories of the Inquisition's execution of her father by auto-da-fe and her own constant fear of exposure as a Jew. |
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