Portuguese Inquisition

Moriscos (, ; ; "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam. Spain had a sizeable Muslim population, the mudéjars, in the early 16th century.

King of Portugal (r. 1521-1557)

thumb|Saint Dominic anachronistically presiding over an auto de fe, by [[Pedro Berruguete (around 1495)]]

community descended from Muslims and Jews

president of the council of the Spanish Supreme Inquisition

system of tribunals enforcing Catholic orthodoxy

established in 1560 to force conversion to the Roman Catholic Church in Portuguese India

Spanish oppressive policies against crypto-Jews and crypto-Muslims

thumb|220px|A convicted heretic before the Inquisition, wearing a sanbenito and a [[capirote (Francisco de Goya)]] The sanbenito (; Catalan: gramalleta, sambenet, Portuguese: sambenito) was a penitential garment that was used especially during the Portuguese and Spanish Inquisitions. It was similar to a scapular, either yellow with red saltires for penitent heretics or black and decorated with devils and flames for impenitent heretics to wear at an auto-da-fé (meaning 'act of faith').

Cardinal and Inquisitor-General of Portugal (1664-1750)

palace

Brazilian historian, specialized in the Portuguese Inquisition

Portuguese catholic priest and theologian