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4 days ago · A papal bull issued in 1252 by Pope Innocent IV had allowed such practices, but torture was supposed to be as a last resort. As well, torturers were not supposed to spill the blood of the people being tortured. Among the methods of torture used by the Spanish Inquisition were these:
4 days ago · v. t. e. Teresa of Ávila, OCD ( Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28 March 1515 – 4 or 15 October 1582), [a] also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer . Active during the Counter-Reformation, Teresa became the central figure of a movement of spiritual and monastic ...
- 4 October 1582 (aged 67), Alba de Tormes, Crown of CastileTheology career
- Christian mysticism
1 day ago · The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [5] [6] [7] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [8] [9] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered the Age of Discovery and achieved a global scale, [10] controlling vast portions of the Americas, Africa ...
3 days ago · The chapel derives its name from the man who consecrated it: Pope Sixtus IV, who served as the Roman Pontiff from 1471 to 1484. He commissioned the restoration of the Cappella Magna, the chapel that stood where the Sistine Chapel stands today.
5 days ago · “I have seen the ‘Miracle of the Sun.’ This is the pure truth,” the venerable pope wrote of the events that began just two days prior to his proclamation of the dogma. Years later he described the events in handwritten notes. They were on public display at a Vatican exhibit in November 2008, as recorded in Catholic news reports of the ...
3 days ago · Francis ushered in a new era of leadership of the Roman Catholic Church when he was elected pope in 2013. As the first pope from the Western Hemisphere, the first from South America, and the first from the Jesuit order, Francis has brought many reforms to the church and a reputation for humility. His significant achievements include the papal encyclical Laudato si’ (2015), which addressed ...
3 days ago · Book: Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain. Clive Griffin. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN: 9780199280735; 336pp.; Price: £63.00. Reviewer: Dr Harald Braun. University of Liverpool. Citation:
