In February 1633, the brilliant astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to face the Roman Catholic Inquisition. His crime? Supporting the radical idea that the Earth revolved around the Sun. At the time, this heliocentric theory, originally proposed by Copernicus, directly contradicted the Church’s long-held belief in a geocentric universe. What should have been a …
The Spanish Inquisition stands as one of the most infamous periods in history, a time when fear, persecution, and religious intolerance cast a long shadow over Spain and its territories. Established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, the Inquisition was originally intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in …
