Auto de fe

Auto de fe Auto de Fe, Francisco Ricci (1683). Museo del Prado. The autos were a public demonstration of the Inquisition. If the sentence of the Inquisition was condemnatory, this implied that the condemned had to participate in the ceremony and call that solemnized his return to the bosom of the Church (in most cases citation needed ), or punishment as an impenitent heretic . Los autos de fe could be private (auto particular) or public ("public order" or "general self"). The cars were typically carried out in a large public space (in the main square of the city, frequently), generally on holidays. The rituals related to the car and began the night before (the "procession of the Green Cross") and sometimes lasted all day. Two of the most celebrated acts of faith by its solemnity was celebrated in the Plaza Mayor of Valladolid on May 21 and October 8, 1559.In the first of two fourteen people were burned and the bones and statue of another, and were reconciled sixteen with penance. In the second, thirteen people were burned and the bones of another, and there were sixteen other convicts. Surely these two historical events inspired Miguel Delibes described in his novel The Heretic. Another literary reference is found in the novel, the author of faith Self-Austrian Bulgarian-English, Elias Canetti, written in 1935, banned by the Nazis and known until the 60s of century. The auto de fe was often brought to the canvas by painters: one of the best known examples is the painting by Francisco Ricci preserved in the Museo del Prado, which represents the one held in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid on June 30, 1680 (see image .) The last public auto de fe took place in 1826. The last auto de fe in Spain, the master of Ruzafa, Cayetano Ripoll, was sentenced to be hanged and burned later, in Valencia for heresy.Buteven in those days not so horrible spectacle consented, provided that the sentence was not burned in a real way, but the flames were painted in a cube, within which would be the body, which would be thrown into the water.