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- The sanbenito (Spanish: sambenito; Catalan: gramalleta, sambenet, Portuguese: sambenito) was a penitential garment that was used especially during the...
- a sambenito [A garment worn by the penitents of the Inquisition court. The sambenito was used to humiliate heretics and the condemned. The sambenito varied...
- punishments was the forced wearing of distinctive clothing or signs such as the sambenito, sometimes for an entire life. Other punishments were exile, compulsory...
- victims were led to the stake. But before, they had been stripped of their sambenitos, that were placed on the walls of the churches to perpetuate the memory...
- 200 public lashes of the whip and two years in a hospital, wearing a sambenito. The second time de Eguiluz was arrested was in 1632. There was su****ion...
- to have the mercy of being strangled before the fire was lit, and the Sambenito featured red saltires, whose wearer was only to do penance. The three...
- rebeldes pueden ser acusados de muchas cosas, pero no pueden cargar con el sambenito de haberse rebelado contra une democracia electoral, porque eso ya no...
- his journalism and his novels. Historia de un otoño (novel) (1971) El sambenito (novel) (1972) La salamandra (novel) (1973) El santo de mayo (novel) (1976)...
- to his charges under threat of torture. Zapata was forced to wear the sambenito. Zapata was acquitted on 14 January 1725, but still ordered to 10 years...
- declared that "no somos retrógrados ni reaccionarios, aunque sea éste el sambenito que se nos cuelga" and that "en líneas generales, hay cosas que se pueden...