An auto-da-fé (/ˌɔːtoʊdəˈfeɪ, ˌaʊt-/ AW-toh-də-FAY, OW-; from Portuguese auto de fé) or Spanish: auto de fe ([ˈawto ðe ˈfe]) meaning 'act of faith'; was...

Look up auto da fe or auto da fé in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An auto-da-fé (or auto da fé or auto de fe) is a Roman Catholic church ritual which...

heretic. The autos de fé could be public (auto publico or auto general) or private (auto particular). Although initially the public autos did not have...

(1541 until c. 1547) also in Porto, Tomar, and Lamego. It held its first auto de fé in Portugal in 1540. Like the Spanish Inquisition, it concentrated its...

humane court in Europe". The auto de fe that followed trials is the most infamous part of the inquisitions in Spain. The auto de fe involved prayer, celebration...

largest ever auto de fe in New Spain, in which twelve of the accused were burned after being strangled and one person, Tomás Treviño de Sobremontes, was...

Faith", and an abbreviation of its formal name, La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís—"the Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of...

escapades. He was apprehended a third time and condemned to appear in an auto de fe "as a penitent, with a green candle in his hands, a rope about his neck...

found by Goya in his friend Moratín and in the latter's reprint of the Auto de Fe on witchcraft that the Inquisition held in Logroño in 1610. Although Inquisition...

García de la Prada and is now in the collection of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. The painting depicts an auto-da-fé (from...