PART 4: AUTO DA FE... WHAT WAS THAT?
Channel: Frederick FN Noronha
Date: 2022-06-18

The term auto-da-fe literally means ‘act of faith’. It highlights the central theme of an auto-da-fe: the abjuration and reconciliation of a heretic who had been automatically
excommunicated when taken into custody. In the literature of the Inquisition, the auto-da-fe is associated with the grand public display which a Spanish inquisitor termed
‘horrendum ac tremendum spectaculum’. The ceremony was, despite the many shades of cruelty, vengefulness, and horror attributed to it, a very public demonstration of the
Inquisition’s ability to bring a wayward Christian back to the ‘bosom of the Church’.. With Alan Machado (Prabhu), author of a new book on the Goa Inquisition (upcoming). Take a fact-check on the history you might have not heard earlier.