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MALTA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

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Malta, if we may believe Salelles, enjoyed the honor of having St. Paul as the founder of its Inquisition, when he was cast ashore there on his voyage to Rome. In the sixteenth century, however, as a dependency of Sicily, it was under the Sicilian tribunal, which maintained an organization there, under a commissioner. When, in 1530, Charles V gave the island to the Knights of St. John, the Sicilian jurisdiction lapsed but, even without the Holy Office, the Church had efficient machinery for the suppression of heresy. In 1546 a Frenchman named Gesuald was found to have been for ten years infecting the islanders with Calvinist opinions, and the Aragonese Domingo Cubelles, the Bishop of Malta, was at no loss in exercising his episcopal jurisdiction. Gesuald was obstinate in his faith and was duly burnt alive; on his way to the stake he called out “Why do priests hesitate to take wives, since it is lawful?” whereupon Cubelles ordered him to be gagged and he perished in silence. His converts lacked his stubborn convictions and were reconciled—among them two priests who had secretly married their concubines, for which they were condemned to wear the sanbenito. In 1553, the Grand Master, Juan de Omedes, constituted three of the knights and a chaplain as an Inquisition, but there is no trace of their labors and Cubelles continued to exercise his episcopal jurisdiction in several cases during the following years.

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The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies
Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, the Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New Granada
, pp. 44 - 48
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1908

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  • MALTA
  • Henry Charles Lea
  • Book: The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709807.003
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  • MALTA
  • Henry Charles Lea
  • Book: The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709807.003
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  • MALTA
  • Henry Charles Lea
  • Book: The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709807.003
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