Tomás de Torquemada(1420-1498) First Grand Inquisitor of Spain, born at Valladolid in 1420; died at Avila, 16 September, 1498. Tomás de Torquemada was a fifteenth century Spanish Dominican, and an Inquisitor General. Famously described by the Spanish chronicler, Sebastian de Olmedo as "the hammer of heretics, the light of Spain, the saviour of his country, the honour of his order".-wikipedia.en サント・トマス修道院は15世紀末にカトリック両王の寄付によって建造されたドミニコ会派の修道院で、最初の異端審問官であったドミニコ会士トルケマダが埋葬されている シクストゥス4世(41) |