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In 1639 Lima witnessed a Gran Auto de Fe, a public ceremony of judgment, exhibiting the punishments meted out to accused heretics, either reconciled or damned. During this auto Manuel Bautista Perez, convicted of secretly practicing Judaism and refusing to confess his crime, was burned at the stake. The day after, Ana Maria de Contreras, an accused witch, was whipped, shorn, and humiliated—stripped to the waste and led around Lima atop a mule. Manuel Bautista Perez and Ana Maria de Contreras had something else in common besides the fact that they were convicted heretics: they were both accused of having an unholy relationship with native Andeans.
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Silverblatt, I. (2006). Race, Religion, and the Emerging Modern World: Indians, Incas, and Conspiracy Stories in Colonial Peru. In: Morrill, B.T., Ziegler, J.E., Rodgers, S. (eds) Practicing Catholic. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982964_5
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