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Meaning of la purga benito by Josu Barcena




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la purga benito
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Exemplary punishment, public derision by means of which the Holy Peninsular Inquisition (among others) intends to apply the purgatory of the imaginary of Classical Greece. Public exhibition of the condemned by means of forced placement of a Sambenito. The sambenito was a garment originally worn by Catholic penitents to show public repentance for their sins, and later by the Spanish Inquisition to single out those condemned by the court, so it became a symbol of infamy.

  

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