The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 43: July, 1893 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

Excerpt from The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 43: July, 1893

Another cell was accordingly selected for him, in which were two friars and a physician awaiting trial, who were duly sworn and instructed. SO matters continued for a year, with occasional examinations of his fellow-prisoners. The friars pronounced him a heretic and an impostor; the physician a sane man subject to delusions. Finally, in November, 1623, another consultation was held to vote upon his case, and he was unanimously sentenced to burning. To. This at last the Supreme Council assented, but desired the execution to take place in Madrid, where the sacrilege had been committed. He was to be sedulously kept in ignorance, and to be secretly conveyed to the capital. There, on the Plaza Mayor, January 21, 1624, there was a solemn auto da fé celebrated, and he was burned alive as an impenitente negative.

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