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Inquisition

The Inquisition, Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis , was the "fight against heretics" by several institutions within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church. It started in the 12th century, with the introduction of torture in the persecution of heresy...

Timeline of Events

1484

12.5.1484

Pope Innocent VIII issues the ''Summis desiderantes'', a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.

1633

2.13.1633

Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.

4.12.1633

The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.