inquisition

inquisition
- Sanctum Officium, Council Unit, established in XIII. century with the aim of discovering heretics
and non-believers, church investigators (inquisitors) questioned the suspects and, if satisfied
their guilt, submit them to secular authorities to punish them
- The culprits who repented could be absolved of sin and pardoned, but in time
increased persecution of witches and wizards were mainly to punish burning
- The Spanish Inquisition in the fifteenth. Century is a special support of the royal authority,
it was the Moors and Jews forced into conversion, and the kings opposed to loyalty
- Targeted by the Inquisition found themselves: heretics of all sects, scholars who reviewed
dogma, Spanish Jews and Moors, followers of survivors pagan cults, as well as all
people who are clearly from the social average and were declared sorcerers, later
Protestants and some philosophers and scientists