Llorente, Juan

1823

What a priest would do when he detected that someone was a heretic.


"When a priest was appointed an inquisitor by the Pope, or by delegate of the holy see, he wrote to the king, who issued a royal mandate to all the tribunals of the towns where the inquisitor would pass to perform his office, commanding them, on pain of the most severe penalties, to arrest all the persons of whom he should mark as heretics, or suspected of heresy, and to execute the judgments passed upon them."

 


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