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...

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...

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...

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...

treatment of the conversos. In 1811 Moratín published Auto de fe celebrado en la ciudad de Logroño (Auto de fe held in the city of Logroño) which related the...

stage is Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fé, commissioned, most likely, by the General Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada for the Dominican convent of...

and sequence of the ceremony made the auto-de-fé itself 'a work of art [...]' [...]. [...] The aim of the auto-de-fé, as its name suggests, is the 'act of...