#religious trials

• Auto-da-fe — A solemn public ceremony historically organized by the Inquisition Court (especially in Spain and Portugal), during which sentences pronounced against heretics or those accused of religious offenses were proclaimed and executed; by popular extension, the term denotes the execution of convicts by burning at the stake or the destruction by fire of books deemed forbidden or dangerous to dogma.
• Auto-da-fe — A literary and graphic variant for the term autodafe, derived directly from the French pronunciation and spelling; a solemn public ceremony organized in the past by the Inquisition tribunal for proclaiming and executing sentences against heretics, often concluding with the burning at the stake of convicts or writings deemed subversive.