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Keys to The Lost Mirror: the Sambenito
Sambenitos were signs with the name, sentence and punishment of conversos condemned to an auto-da-fé that the Inquisition required churches to post. Featuring the head of a wolf with its mouth open, breathing fire -a symbol of heresy- this sambenito was for Juan, the surgeon, who was burned at the stake in 1490 accused of being a “Judaising apostate heretic”.
