Inquisition sermon on the errors of Judaism delivered by Frei António de Chagas, Portuguese Franciscan Friar and Inquisitor.

Antonio das Chagas, Father.  Á Rainha Nossa Senhora / Oferece este Sermão o P.M. FR. Antonio das Chagas, Da Ordem de S. Francisco...qualificador do Sancto Officio da Inquisição...que Pregou no Auto Da Fee que se celebrou em Lisboa a 11 de Outubro de 1654.   Lisboa, na officiana Craesbeeckiana, 1654.

 [4], 48 pp. Portuguese. Complete. Minor browning, and occasional stains, one gathering detached. Disbound. 

This sermon refers to an Auto da Fé ceremony by the Portuguese Inquisition that took place in Lisbon on October 11^th of 1654, where numerous were sentenced and punished.

One of the victims, garroted and burned at the stake, was Francisco Gomes Henriques (c.1588-1654), nicknamed “Forragaitas” (The Scrooge), a rich trader and banker, whose one of the sons was Monsignor António Mendes Henriques, a high ecclesiastical dignitary in Rome, protégé and secretary of Pope Innocent X.  

Other victims sentenced to be burned were Jerónimo Rodrigues de Figueira, New Christian, shoemaker, and soldier, accused of Judaism, and Leonor de Amaral, New Christian, 38 years old, accused of relapse in Judaism. 

Even though hundreds of Auto da Fé ceremonies were performed in Portugal, only 70 sermons of this kind were known to be published.  All rare.