The condemned to death, I knew, perished usually at the
autos-da-fe, and one of these had been held on the very night of the day of my trial.
Papeis proclamados, embora pelo avesso, nos autos-da-fe, nos quais desfilavam em busca da reconciliacao ou do cumprimento de penas, que iam da prisao ao exilio.
Fortunato de Almeida, em sua Historia da Igreja em Portugal, apresenta uma relacao de penitenciados que sairam nos autos-da-fe, notando a punicao da prioresa do convento da Anunciada, em 1588, na sede do Santo Oficio de Lisboa, e de "uma bruxa e uma santa fingida", na sede de Evora, em 1655.
The notorious
autos-da-fe, trials of faith, lasted between 1560 and 1812, except for a brief four-year suspension between 1774 and 1778.
Because of the surviving records of
autos-da-fe, we know that some of them were sent to prison or dispatched to the galleys; some were to receive a hundred lashes or had to spend a few years in a monastery wearing a sanbenito, a penitential scapular.
Perez continues his narrative with detailed descriptions of a number of
autos-da-fe, where the accused were ceremonially paraded in public in the midst of sermons and public recantations.
Other Afghans exhumed the TV sets they had buried in their yards to save them from the
autos-da-fe of electronics the Taliban staged in Kabul's soccer stadium.
Although its obsessions with the culinary and vestimentary practices of women converted from Judaism or Islam sufficed to make them well represented among prisoners punished at its public
autos-da-fe, Spain's Holy Office posed relatively minor problems for most Spanish women, and vice versa.
As a lifelong newspaperman I am bemused by the passionexpended on these posthumous
autos-da-fe. By habit I try to imagine a headline.
The colonial government, based in the luxurious city of Goa, indulged unabashedly in conspicuous consumption and expensive public ceremonies epitomized by the
autos-da-fe celebrated by the Holy Office.