Pedro de Arbués

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jacquerie27 (talk | contribs) at 08:59, 20 April 2003. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Official of the Spanish Inquisition who was assassinated in Saragossa Cathedral in 1484 in an alleged plot by conversos and Jews. He was very quickly made a saint by popular acclaim and his death greatly assisted the Inquisition and its Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in their campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.

References

Simon Whitechapel, Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition (Creation Books, 2003). ISBN 1840681055
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pedro_de_Arbués&oldid=847512"