How many Jews were killed in Spain by the Catholic Church during the Inquisition ?

Answer 1

Just to clarify a few points - the inquisition is still going on, there has never been an edict to end it.

Secondly - all people who were not Catholic were subject to execution, exile if they did not convert.

Muslims, Jews, Gypsies, and others were all persecuted, made to convert or they escaped to other countries. Interestingly, some faked conversion, and especially the Jews and Muslims were tested by an Inquisitor bringing pork to the house to see if they would eat it. If they did not then it was known that they did not really convert.

Peace and Blessings,

Imam Salim

Answer 2

The answer is 0 were killed by the Catholic Church, many were killed by the monarchs, trying to unite their country under a common religion.

Ferdinand II forced the pope to set up an inquistion, and then Ferdinand went about it.

Using your logic, I could say that the Eastern Orthodox Church sponsered the genocide in Bosnia about 14 years ago.

The answer is 3 to 5,000 people were killed, the number of Jews is unknown.

Answer 3

Dr Henry Kamen , British -Jewish author of The Spanish Inquisition,estimates that some 3,000 or less Judiazers were executed as lapsed apostates. They were executed by the state. Most convicted of being secret observers of Jewish beliefs or rituals were given penances ranging from wearing the sanbenito to jailtime. A large number of Spanish Catholics are descended from Sephardic Jews.

Answer 4

One would have been too many. The truth is that the number is unknown....surely somewhere between hundreds thru tens of thousands. Most Jews escaped the inquisition by fleeing the country....other went underground...feigning conversion and living secretly as Jews. Not all were successful and far too many met their demise at the auto da fe.

Answer 5

All those who were put to death in the inquisition were sentenced and executed by civil authories ... and not the church.

The actual numbers throughout Europe probably never exceeded 10,000, even though counterfeit Christians were very widespread at that time.

The later Salem witch hunts and their European equivalent, mostly under protestant rulers, were much more blatant and totally outrageous violations of civil rights.

Answer 6

The Inquisition did not investigate or bring any Jews to trial. Only Catholics who were suspected of being heretics were investigated and tried by the Inquisition.

Answer 7

Many were, along with the Christians that kept the Sabbath. The sabbath keeping christians were a minority and weren't accepted by the catholic church.

Answer 8

The inquisition was designed as a way to murder devout christians, not jews. What hypocrites they were back then. Come to think of it, they have not changed all that much, have they.

Answer 9

By the Catholic definition, only baptized people can be investigated for heresy.

"Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same." -- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2089
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7C.HTM

Answer 10

And don't forget the ones they threw out of the country, too, along with the Moors, who were Muslim.