Sanbenito
Penitential garment during the Spanish Inquisition / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The sanbenito (Spanish: sambenito;[1][2] Catalan: gramalleta, sambenet, Portuguese: sambenito) was a penitential garment that was used especially during the Portuguese and Spanish Inquisitions. It was similar to a scapular, either yellow with red saltires for penitent heretics or black and decorated with devils and flames for impenitent heretics to wear at an auto-da-fé (meaning 'act of faith').[3]
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