The sanbenito (Spanish: sambenito; Catalan: gramalleta, sambenet, Portuguese: sambenito) was a penitential garment that was used especially during the...

a sambenito [A garment worn by the penitents of the Inquisition court. The sambenito was used to humiliate heretics and the condemned. The sambenito varied...

punishments was the forced wearing of distinctive clothing or signs such as the sambenito, sometimes for an entire life. Other punishments were exile, compulsory...

victims were led to the stake. But before, they had been stripped of their sambenitos, that were placed on the walls of the churches to perpetuate the memory...

200 public lashes of the whip and two years in a hospital, wearing a sambenito. The second time de Eguiluz was arrested was in 1632. There was suspicion...

his journalism and his novels. Historia de un otoño (novel) (1971) El sambenito (novel) (1972) La salamandra (novel) (1973) El santo de mayo (novel) (1976)...

rebeldes pueden ser acusados de muchas cosas, pero no pueden cargar con el sambenito de haberse rebelado contra une democracia electoral, porque eso ya no...

to his charges under threat of torture. Zapata was forced to wear the sambenito. Zapata was acquitted on 14 January 1725, but still ordered to 10 years...

to have the mercy of being strangled before the fire was lit, and the Sambenito featured red saltires, whose wearer was only to do penance. The three...

declared that "no somos retrógrados ni reaccionarios, aunque sea éste el sambenito que se nos cuelga" and that "en líneas generales, hay cosas que se pueden...