Examples of using "Inquisição" in a sentence and their english translations:
The Holy Inquisition started with Pope Lucius III.
Women were the ones who suffered the most during the Inquisition.
Jews fled the Spanish Inquisition and took shelter in the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century.
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and an important figure in the initial development of the modern sciences. His discoveries contradicted the teachings of the Catholic Church, and Galileo was put on trial for heresy by the Inquisition.
In 1632, he published a book that stated, among other things, that the heliocentric theory of Copernicus was correct. Galileo was once again called before the Inquisition and this time was found guilty of heresy.