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Pedro Berruguete: St. Dominic Presiding at an Auto-da-Fé
Gregory IX, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy.
Ferdinand (left) and Isabella, relief with gilt and polychromy by Alonso de Mena, 1632; in the Capilla Real, Granada, Spain.
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Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
Gregory IX
pope
Pius V
Saint Pius V
pope
Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Spanish cardinal
Paul IV
Paul IV
pope
Torquemada, lithograph
Tomás de Torquemada
Spanish inquisitor
Giovanni di Balduccio: Saint Peter Martyr and Three Donors
St. Peter Martyr
Italian preacher
John III
king of Portugal
Francisco Pacheco
Spanish painter
Konrad von Marburg
German inquisitor
Peter Of Castelnau
French martyr
Nicholas Eymeric
Spanish theologian

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