T he Mexican Inquisition was the extension of the Spanish Inquisition to Mexico, in 1571. Generally conisdered less harsh than its Spanish counterpart, the inquisition in Mexico concerned itself with people accused of heresy, solicitation, blasphemy, and bigamy among other religious crimes. Given immigration restrictions imposed within Spain, few conversos of either Jewish or muslim descent immigrated to the New World or were persecuted by the inquisition in Mexico. Pedro Berruguete. ... Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the ‘catholic’ or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. ... Solicitation is a crime; it is an inchoate offense that consists of a person inciting, counseling, advising, urging, or commanding another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime. ... Look up Blasphemy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of God. ... Polygamy, literally many marriages in ancient Greek, is a marital practice in which a person has more than one spouse simultaneously (as opposed to monogamy where each person has a maximum of one spouse at any one time). ...

See also

• converso

Spanish for converted one, converso (feminine conversa) referred to Jews or Muslims or the descendants of Jews or Muslims who had converted, sometimes unwillingly, to Catholicism in Spain, particularly during the 1300s and 1400s. ...

External link

• Survey of Mexican Inquisition Documents
• List of conversos executed