The Condemnation of Galician Judaizers
They sit in the seats on the right, among the Grandes de España (Nobles of Spain), of Galician noble lineage: the Counts of Altamira, Benavente, Lemos, and Monterrei. Above them are the 137 defendants of this great trial, 21 of whom were Galicians by birth or residence, the majority from Ourense, the capital and province (Celanova, Verín); there were also some from Monforte, Pontevedra, Cangas, Neira, and Chacín; they were harshly condemned as Judaizers.
Ethnologic Museum
Executions and Inquisitorial Symbolism: The Auto de Fe of June 30
Of the 19 defendants sentenced to be burned at the stake in this Auto de Fe, six were Galician, mostly women. The execution took place that same afternoon, June 30, in the “firepit” set up at the Porta de Fuen- carral, far from the main square where the inquisitorial act continued, presided over by the Bewitched King.
In addition, 22 statues were burned representing those who had managed to escape the repression or who had already died, among whom were seven Galicians, four of them women, almost all from Ourense who fled in time from the inquisitorial officers. In the painting, we can see the twisted representation of a persistent defendant with a pointed crown and the typical features of the anti-Semitic caricature that reached its peak in Baroque Spain.
