Sanbenito
Sign in to savethumb|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').
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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').
==Etymology== "San Benito" is the Spanish name of either Benedict the Moor or Benedict of Nursia. An alternative etymology by Covarrubias and former editions of the Diccionario de la lengua española has it from saco bendito "blessed sack". Américo Castro "proved that it does not come from saco bendito".