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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Portuguese India (Portuguese: Índia Portuguesa or Estado da Índia) was the aggregate of Portugal's colonial holdings in India.
		The Portuguese acquired several territories from the Sultans of Gujarat: Daman (occupied 1531, formally ceded 1539); Salsette, Bombay, and Baçaim (occupied 1534); and Diu (ceded 1535).
		Eventually, the Inquisition in Goa was banished in 1812 by royal decree, as a consequence of Napoleon's Iberian Peninsular campaign.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Portuguese_India (1366 words)

	Inquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Inquisition was in response to the growing Catharist heresy in southern France.
		The Papal Inquisition in the 1230s was in response to the failures of the Episcopal Inquisition and was staffed by professionals, trained specifically for the job as decreed by the Pope.
		The Portuguese Inquisition expanded its scope of operations from Portugal to Portugal's colonial possessions, including Brazil, Cape Verde and Goa, continued as a religious court, investigating and trying cases of breaches of the tenets of orthodox Roman Catholicism until it was abolished in 1821.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inquisition (1323 words)

	Inquisition in Iberia (Spain and Portugal) PART 1 OF 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Maranos were aided considerably in their struggle against the Inquisition by the nuncio Della Ruvere, who pictured the cruel procedure of King John in the darkest colors, and succeeded in persuading the pope to entrust the bull of May 23, 1536,to a commission for investigation.
		Ugolino, a nephew of Cardinal Santiquatro, was sent as commissioner extraordinary to transmit three bulls—(1) for the institution of the Inquisition, (2) the one of pardon (May 15, 1547), and (3) that suspending the privileges granted—to the king and, according to his instructions, to the "chefes da nação," the representatives of the Neo-Christians.
		After long negotiations the Inquisition resumed its activity on the strength of the bull of Aug. 22, 1681; and on May 10, 1682, an auto da fé was held in Lisbon, the first of the new series, and the largest and most horrible in the whole history of the Portuguese Inquisition.
	isfsp.org /inq2.html (5858 words)

	The Inquisition
		The Inquisition was a Roman Catholic tribunal for discovery and punishment of heresy, which was marked by the severity of questioning and punishment and lack of rights afforded to the accused.
		A later pope, Pope Gregory IX established the Inquisition, in 1233, to combat the heresy of the Abilgenses, a religious sect in France.
		Not until 1808, during the brief reign of Joseph Bonaparte, was the Inquisition abolished in Spain.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/Inquisition.html (768 words)

	History @ IndiaWorld on the Net
		Fort Kochi (21 Feb. 2006, PTI): Ruins of an ancient fort, believed to be that of the 500-year-old Fort Immanuel, built by the Portuguese, have surfaced near the seashore in Fort Kochi as the sand was washed away by the sea waves.
		As a result, the Portuguese were initially quite tolerant of the hindu religion, (although not as tolerant of the muslims).
		From 1540 onwards, under the influence of the Counter Revolution in Europe and with the arrival of the Inquisition in Goa, Portugal's liberal policy towards the hindus was reversed.
	www.india-world.net /india/history/modern/portuguese.html (856 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - INQUISITION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The converts were especially the object of the rigor of the Inquisition from the promulgation, in 1268, of the papal bull "Turbato Corde." In 1274 Bertrand de la Roche was appointed inquisitor of Judaizing Christians in Provence, and in 1285 William of Auxerre was nominated inquisitor for
		The Inquisition, in order to set a trap for the unhappy victims, issued a dispensation and called upon all Maranos guilty of observing Jewish customs to appear voluntarily before the court, promising the repentants absolution and enjoyment of their life and property.
		The Inquisition was all the more active in Old Castile, where Ferdinand and Isabella, with Torquemada, did their utmost, not to confirm the Maranos in their new faith, but to destroy them and to deprive them of their property.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=148&letter=I&search=judaism (11523 words)

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		As early as 1548 Jews were banished by the Portuguese Inquisition to Brazil, and in the same year it is stated that Portuguese Jews transplanted the sugar-cane from the island of Madeira to Brazil.
		The Portuguese city of Recife, or Pernambuco, was captured by the Dutch in 1631; and immediately most of the Jews and Neo-Christians from Bahia and elsewhere removed to that city, although it had a large Jewish population of its own, as it had been principally settled by Jews.
		Many Portuguese Jews of Holland came to Brazil in response to the call; for now that the country offered them full religious liberty, it also gave them the additional advantage of dwelling among a population where they could speak their own language.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1427&letter=B (1901 words)

	What were the Inquisitions?
		The purpose of the inquisitions was to secure and maintain religious and doctorial unity in the Roman Catholic Church and throughout the Roman Empire, through either the conversion or persecution of alleged heretics.
		Generally, when an Inquisition was set up to investigate heresy in a particular area of the Roman Empire, the Pope would appoint two inquisitors, each of which had equal authority in the Inquisition or tribunal.
		The last inquisition period is known as the Roman Inquisition and it was established in 1542 when Pope Paul III established the Holy Office as the final court of appeals in all trials of heresy.
	www.gotquestions.org /inquisitions.html (943 words)

	Marrano
		The introduction of the Spanish Inquisition was bitterly opposed by the Marranos of Seville and other cities of Castile, and especially of Aragon, where they rendered considerable service to the king, and held high legal, financial, and military positions.
		The Portuguese Marranos waged a long and bitter war against the introduction of the tribunal, and spent with some satisfactory results immense sums to win over to their cause the Curia and the most influential cardinals.
		Spanish and Portuguese Marranos petitioned Henry IV of France to permit them to emigrate to France, saying that should he do so, a large number of their fellow sufferers, "good men all of them," would choose France as their home; but many Neo-Christians who entered French territory were obliged to leave within a short time.
	www.datamass.net /ma/marrano.html (3698 words)

	The Inquisition in the New World
		The establishment of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Spain in 1478, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, and the admission of almost 100,000 Spanish Jews into Portugal are backdrops to the colonial history.
		The term "Portuguese Jews" was used by the inquisitors in the New World after 1528 for all Jews - even in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries- despite the fact that many had been born in Spain decades after the expulsion.
		She died in an Inquisition cell in 1647 and her bones were disinterred and burned in the auto de fé of 1649.
	www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/037/6.html (4562 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Henry C Lea (1829-1909): The Inquisition in 17th-Century Peru: Cases of Portuguese Judaizers
		His disappearance excited much talk and he was supposed to have fled, for the supposition of arrest by the Inquisition was scouted, seeing that there had not been sequestration, Cordero confessed at once that he was a Jew and, under torture, implicated his employer and two others.
		One matter which vexed the souls of the inquisitors was the effort made by the threatened Portuguese to hide their property from sequestration.
		There were twenty-nine sufferers in all; they were marched in squads of ten, guarded by soldiers and familiars, while the executioners plied the scourges, and the brutalizing spectacle passed off without disturbance, and with the pious wish of the tribunal that it would please God to make it serve as a warning.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/17c-lea-limainquis.html (3041 words)

	A Shortened History of Freemasonry in Portugal
		Portuguese freemasonry was free from persecution during the decade 1760-1770, under the government of the Marquis of Pombal.
		Portuguese freemasonry, as were all the Southern European fraternities, came to be positively connected with the separation of the Church from the State in matters concerned with education, bureaucracy and state affairs in general.
		All open-minded Portuguese citizens and freemasons enthusiastically supported the thought of freedom that was cherished by the liberals, which contributed substantially to the spread of the ideas of liberalism, a constitutional monarchy and the limitation of absolute power.
	www.freemasons-freemasonry.com /arnaldoGeng.html (11060 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Jew at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		I have a bit of special interest in Portuguese culture because my wife is of Portuguese ancestry, I’ve studied the genealogy of her family and given a talk on the subject, and Portugal is, thus far, the only European country that I have visited.
		The idea of the Inquisition was based on the notion of “heresy” – which is defined as “an opinion or doctrine contrary to church dogma.” After the Roman Catholic Church was established as the official religion of the Roman Empire, heresy became a crime against both civil and canon law.
		The Portuguese Inquisition, established in 1536, was designed to ferret out forced “converts”, called “Marranos,” who were only feigning the practice of Catholicism but privately maintaining their identities and practices as Jews.
	www.epinions.com /content_147301502596 (2045 words)

	The World Today - The Vatican re-evaluates the Spanish Inquisition
		NICK GRIMM: The Inquisition's most famous victim was Galileo in 1633, who made the mistake of spreading the dangerous claim that the world was round.
		A study into the inquisition was instigated by the Pope himself, who set up an international symposium to examine the Church's conduct towards those it considered heretics, from the 13th to the 19th centuries.
		AGOSTINO BORROMEO (translated): The Portuguese Inquisition, which is less talked about, and here there are two texts which talk about the Portuguese Inquisition, we have statistics that are slightly higher — from 1540 to 1629, out of 13,255 trials the death sentences were 5.7 per cent.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1133065.htm (761 words)

	Portugal history
		The treaty divided the (largely undiscovered) world equally between the Spanish and the Portuguese, along a north-south meridian line 370 leagues (1770 km/1100 miles) west of the Cape Verde islands, with all lands to the east belonging to Portugal and all lands to the west to Spain.
		Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, Spain invaded Portugal and the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1580; the Spanish and Portuguese Empires were under a single rule.
		His eldest son, Peter I of Brazil briefly became Peter IV of Portugal, but neither the Portuguese nor the Brazilians wanted a unified monarchy; consequently, Pedro abdicated the Portuguese crown in favor of his seven-year-old daughter, Maria da Glória, on the condition that when of age she marry his brother, Miguel.
	www.portuguese-tour.com /portugal_history.html (5351 words)

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		Despite the important role of Portuguese Jews in commerce, navigational sciences, and in the cartography of Africa, they faced riots, pogroms, and profound oppression during the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions when they became termed Narannos (Moorish Jews) or Judeus Segredos (Secret Jews).
		As the 17th century evolved, the Portuguese were steadily displaced from Senegambia, but they retained their bases in the Cape Verde islands and in Guinea at Cacheu, Bolama, Bissau, Buba, Geba, Mansoa.
		On the one hand, the Portuguese Crown and its feitors and capitaos gained tremendous wealth from the slave trade and they did little to oppose it, however, they were pleased to have a social pariah group, like the lançados, be responsible for the front line operation of the trade.
	www.umassd.edu /SpecialPrograms/caboverde/jewslobban.html (2605 words)

	No Apologies for this Holocaust ! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Alan de Lastic, Archbishop of Delhi, likened the demand for apology for the Goa inquisition to a demand for the Greeks to apologize for Alexander’s invasion.
		This is a blatant lie : the inquisition was a church institution, not a Protuguese.
		The Portuguese sought to spread their religion, in contrast to the racial mass exterminations perpetrated by the Brahmins.
	www.dalitstan.org /journal/genocide/christians/nap4this.html (1048 words)

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		Where the inquisition, also the churchwide heretic-trials (only in catholic countries, but not in all) was powerful (Spain, Portugal with her colonies and Italy), it curtailed witchhunts to the greatest extent.
		Between 1540 and 1700 the inquisition on the Iberic half-isle (Spain), the Canary Islands, the islands located in the middle sea, and in Latin America, dealt with over 44,000 cases.
		The Portuguese Inquisition, which is less talked about, and here there are two texts which talk about the Portuguese Inquisition, we have statistics that are slightly higher — from 1540 to 1629, out of 13,255 trials the death sentences were 5.7 per cent.
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	glbtq >> social sciences >> Inquisition
		The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478; the Portuguese Inquisition in 1536.
		The main goal of the Inquisition was the investigation and punishment of heresy and apostasy.
		The great majority of the sodomy cases tried by the Portuguese and Aragonese inquisitions involved men engaged in same-sex amorous behavior, followed by a number concerned with bestiality, and a few heterosexual cases.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/inquisition.html (799 words)

	A dialog about Portuguese history
		This was sponsored by the Portuguese and Brazilian Societies for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Academic conference marked the 450th anniversary of the establishment in Portugal of the Tribunal of The Holy Office of the Inquisition.
		The medieval Inquisition was controlled by the bishops' authority, but the Inquisition under the Catholic Kings was a state apparatus." He continued......." the Catholic Kings preoccupied almost exclusively with converted Jews.
		You said that, "the Portuguese Inquisition, lasting 300 years, was far more intense and vicious than the Spanish", and, "that is the also the reason why Portugal became so poor and backward".
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	Jews in Cape Verde and on the Guinea Coast
		When a branch of the Portuguese Inquisition was established in Cape Verde in 1672, one result was the seizure of Jewish-owned merchandise.
		As the 17th century evolved, the Portuguese were steadily displaced from Senegambia, but they retained their bases in the Cape Verde islands and in Guinea at Cacheu, Bolama, Bissau, Buba, Geba, Mansoa.
		On the one hand, the Portuguese Crown and its feitors and capitaos gained tremendous wealth from the slave trade and they did little to oppose it, however, they were pleased to have a social pariah group, like the lan,cados, be responsible for the front line operation of the trade.
	www.saudades.org /jewscapev.html (2585 words)

	Inquisition Goa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The inquisition was the greatest terror of our ancestors in Goa because of its incredible tyranny; it was an independent terrorist Republic, which did not recognize the viceroys as their superiors.
		The inquisition admitted the testimony of all kinds of people, even of those who were interested in the utter condemnation of the accused (as was the case of Dellon).
		The condemned to be burnt at the stake were delivered to the secular arm, to which the Inquisition begged to use clemency and mercy with these wretched, and to impose the death penalty without effusion of blood....
	www.apol.net /dightonrock/inquisition_goa.htm (4818 words)

	WHKMLA : Reformation in Portugal
		A papal bull established the Inquisition in Portugal in 1531, confirmed in 1536 and 1547.
		While Portugal technically remained a state of her own and the Portuguese Colonial Empire remained separate of the Spanish, the Portuguese Inquisition was turned into a Spanish-style feared instrument of control and suppression.
		When the Braganza dynasty restored Portuguese independence in 1640, the Portuguese Inquisition remained, what it was; Portugal did not return to the liberal days of old.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/period/reformation/portref.html (402 words)

	Portugal and Portuguese History - Phoenicians to the Present :: Portugal Visitor
		Lasting legacies of Roman domination of the area are: the Portuguese language, which directly derives from Latin and the production of wine.
		1385: Victory of the Portuguese against the Castilians from Spain at the battle of Aljubarrota is celebrated by the building of the Abbey of Batalha and ends the threat of Spanish domination of Portuguese affairs for a time.
		Portuguese explorers (including Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama) utilizing new developments in ship-building, navigation and cartography brought new-found prosperity to Portugal via the main ports of Lisbon and Porto.
	www.portugalvisitor.com /portuguese-culture/history.html (1082 words)

	Crypto-Jews in Mexico during the Spanish Colonial Era
		Unlike the Portuguese in their dominions, the Spanish administration already in 1528 prohibited the settlement in Mexico of persons suspected of being potential agents of religious heresy, like New Christians and descendents of convicts of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition as far as the fourth generation.
		The establishment of a local Inquisition in 1571 contributed to a more vigorous implementation of that policy, which led to an increasingly hostile attitude towards every person suspected of practicing crypto-Judaism, especially during the campaigns conducted in the 1580s and 1590s and again in the 1640s.
		Luis de Carvajal the Younger was tried twice by the Inquisition and finally burned at the stake in an auto-da-fé; on December 8, 1596 along with his mother, three sisters and five other crypto-Jews.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/CryptoMexico.asp (1690 words)

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