Autodaf in Lisbon, engraving by Michael Geddes 1682

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Auto-da-fé in Lisbon, engraving by Michael Geddes
(1682)
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4 - Impact and interpretations
4.1 The auto da fé used its elaborate ceremonies
to emphasize the triumph of catholic faith over
heresy.
4.2 The auto became a festivitie and a public
comemoration of the Catholic triumph.
4.3 The auto was a tool of a policy of terror and
of diciplining the populations.
4.4 The auto as a catarsis, a community purge.
4.5 The auto as public and advanced
representation of the Last Judgement.