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2 unusual facts about inquisitor


Inquisitor's Palace

The Inquisitor's Palace is a museum sited in the heart of Birgu, Vittoriosa, Malta.

:Not to be confused with the Palace of the Holy Office in the Vatican.


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The bull was issued in the wake of the murder of the papal inquisitor of Lombardy, St. Peter of Verona, who was killed by a conspiracy of Cathar sympathizers on 6 April 1252.

Elizabeth of Hungary

It was also about this time that the priest and later inquisitor Konrad von Marburg gained considerable influence over Elizabeth when he was appointed as her confessor.

Juan Pardo

Juan Pardo de Tavera (1472–1545), Spanish cardinal and Grand Inquisitor

Matthieu Ory

Matthieu Ory (b. at La Caune, 1492; d. at Paris, 1557) was a French Dominican theologian and Inquisitor.

Nemesis the Warlock

In "Terror Tube" the police were portrayed as a cross between the Spanish Inquisition (Torquemada is named after the notorious inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada) and the Ku Klux Klan (or from Spanish Easter penitents), making it easier to position them as the bad guys.

Oldrado da Tresseno

He was a close friend to inquisitor Pietro da Verona and actively collaborated with the Inquisition in prosecuting heretics, especially the believers of the Church of Concorezzo, a very active Cathar group of that was supported by the bishop of Concorezzo (a town North-East of Milan, near Monza) and by local feudatory Filippo Confalonieri.

Petrus Zwicker

Petrus Zwicker (died 1403 in Vienna) was an East Prussian Inquisitor and cleric of the Roman Catholic Order of the Celestines.

Pietro Parente

Pietro Parente (February 16, 1891, Casalnuovo Monterotaro, Italy – December 29, 1986, Rome, Italy) was a long-serving theologian and inquisitor in the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church, and was made a cardinal on June 26, 1967.

RiAFP

RiAFP refers to an antifreeze protein (AFP) produced by the Rhagium inquisitor longhorned beetle.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Carcassonne-Narbonne

St. Peter of Castelnau, the Cistercian inquisitor martyred by the Albigenses in 1208, St. Camelia, put to death by the same sectarians, and St. John Francis Regis (1597-1640), the Jesuit, born at Fontcouverte in the Diocese of Narbonne, are specially venerated in the Diocese of Carcassonne.

The Grand Inquisitor

The Inquisitor frames his denunciation of Jesus around the three questions that Satan asked Jesus during the temptation of Christ in the desert.

Turibius

Turibius of Mongrovejo (died 1606), Spanish nobleman, inquisitor, missionary, and archbishop

Val Camonica witch trials

During the first months of 1518, inquisitors were stationed in the parishes of the Val Camonica; Don Bernardino de Grossis in Pisogne, Don James de Gablani in Rogno, Don Valerio de Boni in Breno, Don Donato de Savallo in Cemmo and Don Battista Capurione in Edolo, all under the bishop Inquisitor Peter Durante, who presided at the central court of the Inquisition at Cemmo.

Vorlon

Aside from Alexander, only one other human has been known to have access to Vorlon space: Sebastian, formerly known as Jack the Ripper, whom the Vorlons took from 19th century Earth in order to employ as an "Inquisitor".

Zork: Grand Inquisitor

The player character joins forces with the Dungeon Master Dalboz (voiced by Michael McKean), who was imprisoned in a lantern by the Grand Inquisitor, Yannick.


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