Sanbenito

A convicted heretic before the Inquisition, wearing a sanbenito and a capirote (Francisco de Goya)

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]

  1. ^ sambenito at the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española. Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth Century, Jonathan Schorsch, BRILL, 2009, pag 99
  3. ^ "Definition of SANBENITO". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2024-01-24.