auto da fe
/ˌɔːtoʊ də ˈfeɪ/
noun
- A public ceremony during the Spanish Inquisition in which people judged as heretics were punished, often by being burned at the stake.
- Historians study the auto-da-fe to understand religious persecution in the past.
- Many innocent people suffered during the auto-da-fe ceremonies of the Inquisition.
- The auto-da-fe was a dramatic and terrifying event in medieval Spain.