A poster wants examples of people being tortured by the Inquisition?
Jacob Petersen from Dunkirk, a sailor aged 20 who was examined by the tribunal of the Canaries in November 1597. He was stripped and bound and tortured by potro. See Kamen p. 191.
"On being given these he said first,‘Oh God!’ and then,‘There’s no mercy’: after the turns he was admonished, and he said,‘I don’t know what to say, oh dear God1’ Then three more turns of the cord were ordered to be given, and after two of them he said,‘Oh God, oh God, there’s no mercy, oh God, help me, help me1’
In 1607, at Valencia, a girl of 13 was tortured. (p. 190, Kamen). A secretary noted every word of a woman accused in 1568 of not eating pork:“She was ordered to be placed on the potro. She said, ‘Senores, when will you not tell me what I have to say? Senor, put me on the ground – have I not said that I did it all ? ‘ She was told to talk. She said ‘I don’t remember – take me away – I did what the witnesses say.’ She was told to tell in detail what the witnesses said. She said, ‘Senor, as I have told you, I do not know for certain. I have said that I did all that the witnesses say. Senores, release me, for I do not remember.’ She was told to talk. She said, ‘Senores, it does not help me to say that I did it and I have admitted that what I have done has brought me to this suffering – Senor, you know the truth – Senores, for God’s sake have mercy on me. Oh Senor, take these things from my arms – Senor release me, they are killing me.’….’I did it – for God’s sake let me go.”
And he wants examples of people being handed over to the civil authorities to be burned at the stake?
Joan of Arc. And her trial at the inquistion was also determined to be inhumane and unfair by the Vatican itself.
This was a most cruel and inhumane and unfair attempt at justice. the methods were barbaric.
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