Leonardo Phelipe's Trial: A Secretary From The Spanish Inquisition

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This source is a record of Leonardo Phelipe’s trial; a secretary from the Spanish Inquisition documented it in the year 1637. Phelipe was being accused of being a Lutheran “heretic” that commonly swore, denied God and his Saints, ridiculed the Catholic church and never confessed himself. Fiscals or in this case the secretary, had to keep records of evidence from testimonies, because they needed to present it before the high officials in the Spanish Inquisition and during the audiences. These records, marked or did not mark individuals as people that had deviated from Catholic principles or that acted in a way that was offensive to the church.
The intended audience was Phelipe himself so he could offer a rebuttal following the testimonies from

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