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  2. Tomás de Torquemada - Wikipedia

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    Tomás de Torquemada [a] OP (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), also anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Roman Catholic Dominican friar and first Castillian Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office, which was a group of ecclesiastical prelates created in 1478 and charged with the somewhat ill-defined task of "upholding Catholic religious orthodoxy" within the lands of the ...

  3. Torquemada (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Nostradamus de Torquemada (brother, alive but insane) He became insane when he was ambushed by the Monads and Torquemada abandoned him to his fate instead of helping him. Torquemada had him committed to a lunatic asylum, and pretended Nostradamus was his senile grandfather. Candida de Torquemada (wife – annulled, second marriage interrupted ...

  4. Grand Inquisitor - Wikipedia

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    Grand Inquisitor (Latin: Inquisitor Generalis, literally Inquisitor General or General Inquisitor) was the highest-ranked official of the Inquisition.The title usually refers to the inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, in charge of appeals and cases of aristocratic importance, even after the reunification of the inquisitions.

  5. Nemesis the Warlock - Wikipedia

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    Nemesis the Warlock is a comic series created by writer Pat Mills and artist Kevin O'Neill which appeared in the pages of the British weekly comics anthology 2000 AD.The title character, a fire-breathing demonic alien, fights against the fanatical Torquemada, Grand Master of the Terran Empire in Earth's distant future, and his attempts to exterminate all alien life.

  6. Torquemada (play) - Wikipedia

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    Torquemada is an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about Tomás de Torquemada and the Inquisition in Spain. It criticized religious fanaticism and fanatical catholicism . It was first published in 1882, as a protest against antisemitic pogroms in Russia at the time.

  7. The Pit and the Pendulum (1991 film) - Wikipedia

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    Maria is befriended by fellow prisoner Esmerelda, a confessed witch. Together they struggle to save themselves from the sinister Torquemada. Maria's husband Antonio breaks into the castle to rescue his innocent wife. He fails and is imprisoned for his actions. Torquemada decides to test a new torture device, the Pit and the Pendulum, on Antonio.

  8. Inquisitor - Wikipedia

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    Tomás de Torquemada, 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar and Grand Inquisitor. An inquisitor was an official (usually with judicial or investigative functions) in an inquisition – an organization or program intended to eliminate heresy and other things contrary to the doctrine or teachings of the Catholic faith.

  9. Torquemada - Wikipedia

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    Torquemada en la hoguera (1889) Torquemada en la Cruz (1893) Torquemada en el purgatorio (1894) Torquemada y San Pedro (1895) Torquemada, an 1869 poem and an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about the life of Tomás de Torquemada; Torquemada (comics), the main villain (Tomás de Torquemada) from the comic strip Nemesis the Warlock in the British comic ...