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Ana de Castro

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95:(public prosecutor) Mateo de Amusquíbar accused Cristóval Sánchez Calderón, inquisitor from 1730 to 1748, of executing her for the spectacle, and as a demonstration of the power of the Inquisition. To this might be added the motive of confiscation of her property. Amusquíbar accused Sánchez Calderón of corruption — mismanaging funds and personally profiting from the fines he imposed. Sánchez Calderón was arrested and expelled from Lima, but allowed to return in 1747. 49:. Her great beauty was mentioned in most written accounts of her by contemporaries. She was also said to be extremely haughty. For example, she was said to attend mass in the Plaza de la Recoleta in her carriage, but without descending from it. She was a wealthy and cultivated member of society in Lima. She was also accused of being promiscuous — there were rumors that she had had an affair with one of the royal viceroys. (If true, this was probably Oms or 61:
The story of her arrest is as follows. Out of revenge, one of her ex-lovers bribed a maid in her household to hide a crucifix beneath her mattress. He then denounced her to the Inquisition, claiming that she was guilty of whipping an image of Christ. An investigation turned up the image among her bed
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She apparently did not confess to the major charges against her, although she admitted to some Jewish observances she believed were not incompatible with Catholicism (observing the Sabbath and mourning the dead, things she had learned as a child). She was said to have revealed under torture that her
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Women were exempt from torture by the Inquisition, but nevertheless, the Supreme Council of the Inquisition in Lima voted to subject her to torture to obtain a confession. In her ten years in prison she was tortured three times, and she had twenty audiences with the inquisitors in order to give her
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There were irregularities in her case, recognized at the time. As a woman, she should not have been subjected to torture. Some witnesses reported seeing signs of repentance when she was paraded through Lima to the stake, something that should have spared her life but didn't. There was also a
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In 1736, in spite of a ruling from Spain that she be spared, she was paraded through the streets of Lima on a mule, subjected to a sermon, turned over to the secular arm, and then burned at the stake. A crowd of 10,000 jeering spectators witnessed her execution. She was accompanied by other
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for impenitence, that she herself had been implicated in the crime, and that she had been asked to whip a small child to death as an act of judaizing but had only witnessed the act.
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Williams, Jerry M. "A New Text in the Case of Ana de Castro: Lima's Inquisition on Trial". This is available on-line (in .pdf format) here:
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in 1736. This event was a major spectacle in Lima, but it raised questions about possible irregular procedures and corruption within the
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an opportunity to confess. Her considerable property, estimated at 22,000 pesos, was confiscated.
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prisoners, but they were sentenced to lesser penalties. Her ashes were thrown into the
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The Holy Tribunal banned discussion of her case, under pain of excommunication.
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All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic
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sister and some other relatives had been burned by the Inquisition in
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linen and she was arrested. It is not possible to verify this story.
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directive from Spain barring her execution, which was ignored.
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Historia del tribunal de la Inquisición de Lima: 1569-1820
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auto de fe
Inquisition
Toledo, Spain
Manuel de Oms y de Santa Pau
José de Armendáriz
Seville
Rímac River
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic
ISBN
978-0300150537


Some details
Categories
1680s births
1736 deaths
Peruvian Jews
Executed Spanish people
Executed Peruvian women
People executed by the Spanish Inquisition
18th-century executions by Spain
Executed Peruvian people
People executed by Spain by burning
18th-century Peruvian people
Victims of antisemitic violence
Jewish martyrs
Jewish Peruvian history
Jewish women

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