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3/3/2022   A publication of the Cuban Studies Institute

“Bits of Cuban History” is a new series of weekly publications highlighting historical events and information from Cuba’s colonial and national periods.   We hope you enjoy this new publication.   Following is the 9th in this new series.     BITS OF CUBAN HISTORY   INQUISITION   The royal Tribunal del Santo Oficio was established in Spain in 1478, independent of the Papal Inquisition, to preserve the purity of the Church.  As the threat from Protestantism grew in Europe, the tribunal was brought to the New World (with a court covering the Caribbean set up in Cartagena de Indias in 1610) to persecute non-Catholics, primarily Protestants and conversos (Jews who had accepted baptism to avoid expulsion from Spain’s domains in 1492 and their descendants, suspected of practicing their former religion in secret), and to oversee the observance of Catholic teaching and to purge “dangerous” literature from the colonies.  It was finally abolished in 1834.   Read on Web

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