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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tomas de Torquemada
		Torquemada urged the sovereigns to compel all the Jews either to become Christians or to leave Spain.
		Torquemada's ways of ferreting out and punishing heretics were justifiable is a matter that has to be decided not only by comparison with the penal standard of the fifteenth century, but also, and chiefly, by an inquiry into their
		Torquemada "the hammer of heretics, the light of Spain, the saviour of his country, the honour of his order".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14783a.htm (689 words)

	Cultural Readings - Torquemada
		Torquemada's history articulates the limits of assimilation on the uncertain frontiers of the Spanish empire.
		Not only was Torquemada, a Franciscan, interested in indigenous languages and religious ceremonies, but he also attempted to reconstruct the distant past of indigenous peoples by gathering evidence from extant monuments, art, and codices, as well as from interviews with natives.
		As a missionary, Torquemada was also intensely interested in the progress of the gospel and in the labors of his fellow Franciscans.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/kislak/religion/torquemada1.html (0 words)

	Torquemada
		Torquemada had always been strong in his advice that she should marry Ferdinand of Aragon and thus consolidate the kingdoms of Spain.
		Torquemada went with the sovereigns to Cordova, to Madrid or wherever the states-general were held, to urge on the war; and he obtained from the Holy See the same spiritual favors that had been enjoyed by the Crusaders.
		For a long time Torquemada had tried to get the royal consent to a general expulsion; but the sovereigns hesitated, and, as the victims were the backbone of the commerce of the country, proposed a ransom of 300,000 ducats instead.
	www.nndb.com /people/257/000111921 (2286 words)

	Tomas de Torquemada
		Torquemada, however, had planned for this eventuality, and, once he was back on his feet, quickly rid himself of his helpers.
		It was exactly the source of energy that Torquemada needed to power his engines of destruction, and so purification plants were set up to pump and refine future man, flaring off his 'useless' spirits into the atmosphere, filling the air with screaming as they were separated from their bodies.
		As for Torquemada's beloved Candida, she continued to languish in her asylum cell for many years, with only the TV and the insane ramblings of 'Grandfather' Nostradamus for company, until one day she was visited by a travelling musician who played for her the music of the spheres, and brought her back to sanity.
	www.dreamnation.fsnet.co.uk /torq.html (3235 words)

	A Regrettable Life: Tomás de Torquemada
		At his birth (1420, Torquemada, Castile, Spain) Tomás already had something to hide: his grandmother was a converso; a converted Jew; a New Christian.
		Torquemada's life work was an attempts to achieve sangre limpia for Spain.
		Torquemada used the LaGuardia trial to argue that the Jews were a danger to Spain.
	www.mcs.drexel.edu /~gbrandal/Illum_html/Torquemada.html (754 words)

	Torquemada, the notorious Inquisition mass murderer --- the Crime Library - The Crime library
		Torquemada's uncle, Cardinal Juan de Torquemada, was a well-known theologian, and Torquemada's superiors took notice of him for this reason.
		But thanks to his special relationship with the sovereigns of the Spanish kingdoms, Torquemada, at age 63, was appointed to the position of Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, an office he relished.
		With Torquemada whispering in their ears, the royal couple lobbied Pope Sixtus IV to grant their request for a Holy Office to administer an inquisition in their kingdoms.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/mass/torquemada/2.html (641 words)

	Torquemada, the notorious Inquisition mass murderer --- the Crime Library - The Crime library
		During questioning the woman had insisted that although she was born a Jew, she was now a converse, a convert to Catholicism.
		But the telltale signs, which were outlined by the Grand Inquisitor himself, Tomas de Torquemada, indicated that she was in fact a heretic, a practicing Jew pretending to be a Catholic and secretly subverting the Catholic faith.
		The rules of torture as written by Torquemada, a man whom historians have compared to Hitler, stipulated that no more than eight liters of water could be used in a single session.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/mass/torquemada/index.html (549 words)

	torquemada: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
		The US Central Intelligence Agency is expected to hugely overspend its torture budget this year because of large royalty payments to the estate of Tomás de Torquemada, the former Inquisitor General of Spain and inventor of waterboarding.
		Watching Senator Ted Kennedy this morning discussing Mukasey’s snowball in hell chance of being attorney general if it were just up to Ted, it somehow reminded me of a poem from the Harlem Renaissance by Marcus B. Christian (especially after Doofus went on the TeeVee to defend said diddler).
		Torquemada Spawn: Trying to send a large attachment through...
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	Torquemada font family : MyFonts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Torquemada family marks the return of eminent American calligrapher Philip Bouwsma to the type scene after almost 7 years of hiatus, and he is certainly coming back with a lot of bells and whistles!
		Torquemada offers the same kind of excitement that emanated from Bouwsma’s work in 1970s and 1980s New York, when he was one of the most important leaders of the New Calligraphy movement that brought calligraphy forth as a mainstream art and craft, and spawned many of today’s known calligraphers.
		Bouwsma’s Torquemada Principle defines the harmony of weight, contrast, tension and space by consistently changing the angle of the broad pen between 0 and 80 degrees throughout all strokes.
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	Torquemada
		Tomás de Torquemada was the leader and one of the creators of the Spanish Inquisition during its early years.
		Torquemadas own grandmother was a converso and he had Jewish people in his family four generations back.
		Torquemada used the LaGuardia trial and argued that Jews were a danger to Spain.
	www.ichimusai.org /artiklar/torquemada.html (696 words)

	Tomás de Torquemada
		As papal representative and the highest official of the inquisitorial court, Torquemada directed the entire business of the Inquisition in Spain, was empowered to delegate his inquisitorial faculties to other Inquisitors of his own choosing, who remained accountable to him, and settled the appeals made to the Holy See.
		Even the Jewish historian Graetz contents himself with stating that "under the first Inquisitor Torquemada, in the course of fourteen years (1485-1498) at least 2000 Jews were burnt as impenitent sinners" ("History of the Jews", Philadelphia, 1897, IV, 356).
		Whether Torquemada's ways of ferreting out and punishing heretics were justifiable is a matter that has to be decided not only by comparison with the penal standard of the fifteenth century, but also, and chiefly, by an inquiry into their necessity for the preservation of Christian Spain.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/torquemada,tomas_de.html (780 words)

	The Age of Torquemada by John Edward Longhurst, Chapter 11
		A member of Torquemada's monastery at Segovia, it was friar Fernando who had dedicated to the Inquisitor General the"Censure and Confutation of the Talmud," that exercise in Jew-detecting which was so useful for effective prosecution of Conversos.
		Although there was no formal tribunal of the Inquisition at Avila, Torquemada had thoughtfully equipped his new monastery with all the necessary machinery, including an audience chamber, dungeons (which latter, his friends always tell us, were more "light and airy" than the usual dungeon), and a well stocked torture chamber.
		Torquemada is said to have thrust his way into the royal chamber and shamed his hesitant employers with an embarrassing reference to Judas and his thirty pieces of silver.
	libro.uca.edu /torquemada/torquemada11.htm (3255 words)

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		The nephew of a noted Dominican cardinal and theologian, Juan de Torquemada, the young Torquemada joined the Dominicans and in 1452 became prior of the monastery of Santa Cruz at Segovia, an office that he held for 22 years.
		Torquemada's implacable hostility to the Jews probably exercised an influence on the decision of Ferdinand and Isabella to expel from their dominions all Jews who had not embraced Christianity.
		In his private life Torquemada seems to have been pious and austere, but his official career as inquisitor was marked by a harsh intransigence, which nevertheless was generally supported by public opinion, at least in the early years.
	www.unc.edu /~fwvogler/fren41/spring/Torquemada.html (379 words)

	The Unofficial Torquemada Biography
		Torquemada was a sorcerer, recruited for the Green Lantern Corps by Brik and Percival.
		Torquemada later gazed into his crystal to learn the history of the mystical Starheart, the damnation of Yalan Gur, and the origin of Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern.
		Torquemada managed to save Alan Scott's family by capturing a portion of the magic, sealing it in a mystic globe.
	glcorps.dcuguide.com /profile.php?name=torquemada (713 words)

	Tomás de Torquemada
		Born on a date uncertain in 1420 in what is now Valladolid, Torquemada was a Dominican monk —; one of the famed "hounds of the Lord" (domini canes) — in the monastery at Valladolid, and later became prior of the Monastery of Santa Cruz at Segovia, serving for 22 years.
		His favorite methods for extracting confessions, nevermind the truth, were to hang the accused by the arms so that the arms were pulled from their joints, to force the swallowing of gallons of water, and to have the joints dislocated on the rack.
		Whether Torquemada's ways of ferreting out and punishing heretics were justifiable is a matter that has to be decided not only by comparison with the penal standard of the fifteenth century, but also, and chiefly, by an inquiry into their necessity for the preservation of Christian Spain.*
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0916almanac.htm (600 words)

	September 16: Torquemada; Christian History Institute
		With energy and connections, it was inevitable that Torquemada should rise to power.
		Torquemada developed an oppressive network of spies and secret police.
		When Sixtus IV in a bull absolved all the Conversos of any wrong they might have done, Ferdinand refused to be bound by the bull.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/09/daily-09-16-2001.shtml (538 words)

	Torquemada
		Torquemada's own grandmother was a converso, but he continued to elevate the level of his Inquisition to that of an ethnic cleansing or a full-blown massacre.
		To Torquemada's credit, a large percentage of his victims were very wealthy.
		Torquemada lived a long life surrounded by comfort before dying of natural causes at the age of 78.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/religion/torquemada (500 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Spanish Inquisition
		Torquemada had foreseen this and warned his inquisitors to ignore the pitiful attempts of the accused sole.
		Torquemada always insisted on being present where ever possible and always took a keen interest in the preparations.
		Although Torquemada was considered at the time to be a dedicated man with a Godly mission, he was less well respected by those who were liable to get the special night call, namely Joe Public.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A620083 (2206 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Torquemada, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Torquemada, Juan de The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
		He entered (1403) the Dominican order and later participated in the councils of Constance and Basel, where he strenuously defended the supreme papal authority against the conciliar theory.
		A Dominican, he became confessor to Ferdinand II and Isabella I and in 1483 was appointed inquisitor general of Castile and Aragón, charged with the centralization of the Spanish Inquisition.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Torquemada, (635 words)

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		For example, Fray Tomas de Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor whose very name is now a symbol of ruthless cruelty, actually checked the excessive zeal of the earlier inquisitors in many ways, including the limiting and mitigating of torture.
		Torquemada is not the monster of the Black Legend; still, he was responsible for, as an estimation, between 1,000 and 1,500 deaths.
		Torquemada was not master of Spain and would not murder Christ.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/SPANINQ.TXT (1342 words)

	Amazon.com: Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition. (The Blood History Series): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amazon.com: Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition.
		Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition.
		Tomas Torquemada, a Dominican Friar, was single-handedly responsible for engineering and implementing some of the cruellest forms of torture the world has ever known.
	www.amazon.com /Flesh-Inferno-Atrocities-Torquemada-Inquisition/dp/1840681055 (1271 words)

	Torquemada - European short hair - March 25, 2003
		his is Torquemada and she is special for all the reasons cats can be special for.
		And she thinks she is the real mate of my husband - and has very particular ways to let me know it - as the "this-man-is-mine" look in the picture.
		I had cats for the most of my life, but Torquemada has the strongest personality I ever met in a pet.
	www.catoftheday.com /archive/2003/March/25.html (184 words)

	THOMAS TORQUEMADA (142... - Online Information article about THOMAS TORQUEMADA (142...
		wealth was beginning to flow in to the new tribunals by means of fines and confiscations; and they obliged Torquemada to take as assessors five persons who would represent them in all matters affecting the royal prerogatives.
		Madrid or wherever the states-general were held, to urge on the war; and he obtained from the Holy See the same spiritual favours that had been enjoyed by the Crusaders.
		Age was now creeping on Torquemada, who, however, never would allow his misdirected zeal to See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TOO_TUM/TORQUEMADA_THOMAS_1420_1498_.html (3209 words)

	Leonardo Balada - Torquemada and other works
		The text sung by Torquemada is taken from General Instructions.
		TORQUEMADA: they shall not be sentenced to death nor to life imprisonment and nor shall their goods be taken but shall lie given lighter sentences.
		Merciful is the word of Christ and the forgiveness that his voice brings, but you, with pride you would draw justice from torment, impose your Faith with punishment and you break the laws of Christianity, scaling the destiny of these lands with prejudice of race and hate and envy between father and on.
	www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu /~balada/Torquemada.htm (458 words)

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