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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN<br />

Representation of an auto-da-fé, (around 1495).<br />

Many artistic representations depict torture and burning at the stake<br />

as occurring during the auto-da-fé.<br />

An auto-da-fé (also auto da fé and auto de fe) was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics<br />

and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition or the Portuguese Inquisition had decided<br />

their punishment, followed by the execution by the civil authorities of the sentences imposed. Both auto<br />

de fe in medieval Spanish and auto da fé in Portuguese actually mean "act of faith".<br />

St. Francis Xavier who requested the Inquisition in 1545 and Copper engraving entitled "Die Inquisition in<br />

Portugall", by Jean David Zunner<br />

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