Isabella of Aragon, and Ferdinand of Castile in marriage unified the two kingdoms to unify Spain. Isabella was a fervent Catholic who sought to protect and expand the Catholic religion. The Spanish Inquisition was formally established by papal bull in 1478, granted by Pope Sixtus IV to Isabella and Ferdinand to deal with their problem of the Muslim and Jews living in Spain. The immediate task of the Spanish Inquisition, according to Isabella and Ferdinand was to deal with the problem of the conversos and Moriscos, Jews and Muslims who practiced their religion rites in secret. The Spanish Inquisition was means to protect the Catholic faith in Spain, from Jews, Muslim and …show more content…
Under the Spanish Inquisition, for the next 300 years, Spain underwent a cleansing of its religion, people, and culture. Whitewashing away its Muslim and Jewish history.
Shortly after Ferdinand appointed Tomás de Torquemada to be the first Inquisitor. Tomas de Torquemanda was a Dominican friar, and the general inquisitor under who tribunals initially focused on converted Jews and Muslims in Spain. Autos de fe, in english known as Acts of Faith, were a form of formal church rite of public penance in which condemned heretics and apostates received their sentences. These were public ceremony in which the accused repented their sins committed against Spain and the Catholic