Besides these there were twenty-two cases of those who had been reconciled in 1679 who were not relaxed but penanced in various ways, including fines ranging from one to five hundred libras, and aggregating in all sixty-five hundred libras.
Thus Juan Vicente Esquirel y Morales--a man with a number of aliases who had been a foot-soldier--was penanced for this offence at Granada in 1727.
Those who had merited mercy by prompt confession and denunciation of accomplices were, as a rule, not severely penanced and, in many cases, their punishment was abbreviated.
For this he was imprisoned, tried, required to abjure and penanced as unsound in the faith.
He was of Moorish descent and, when only twelve years old, had been penanced at Córdova for Moorish errors.
Thus the field of operation of the Inquisition was almost unlimited, and every one whom it penanced became a source of stronger infection.
The remedy for this was the immediate exile of all who were penanced or, if they were allowed to remain, the branding of them on the forehead with the arms of the Inquisition.
More credible is the miracle, reported by Juan de Anchias, that their trials led to the discovery of innumerable heretics who were duly penanced or burnt.
In this latter auto Sancho de Paternoy, Maestre Racional of Aragon, was penanced with perpetual imprisonment.
His parents were involved in his ruin, all three were arrested and convicted and he was penanced so as to disable him from holding preferment.
Besides these are two penanced for suborning false witness in favor of Luis de Santangel and seventeen for aiding or sheltering the guilty, and two for rejoicing at the crime.
In addition, there were a thousand and ninety-four penanced in various ways.
Juan Canalvero was fined six ducats and penanced for saying that he would cheat his father or God in buying or selling.
Twenty of them recanted and were penanced with crosses and banishment or imprisonment, but five were stubborn and sealed their faith with martyrdom in the flames.
The rest were to be penanced as the bishops and the Abbot of Fontfroide might advise, excluding confiscation and personal or humiliating penalties.
Thus in Zurich a certain Burchard and his disciples were tried and penanced with crosses; but they were subsequently found to be relapsed and were all burned.
The Waldenses had great reputation as skilful leeches, and two men who had called them in for their wives and children were penanced with the pilgrimages of Puy, St. Gilles, and Compostella.
Some other suspects he tortured and penanced with crosses: apparently he had no prisons at his disposal in which to incarcerate them.
In 1548, the Saragossa tribunal penanced for fautorship five hidalgos, vassals of the Count of Ribagorza, in a way disabling them from holding office.
Mexia, on a visitation penanced Damian Cortes in 100 ducats because, thirty years before, when some one told him to trust in God, he had exclaimed "Trust in God!
Besides these the alcaide of the prison was to keep lists of those relaxed and penancedwith three indexes.
As to the others, an inquisition was held on them, when all but twenty-five submitted, and were rigorously penanced by the triumphant Conventuals.
It shows the uncertainty of procedure as yet that he was not burned, but was allowed to abjure, and was penanced with perpetual imprisonment on bread and water.
Even Taria, the expectant cardinal of the New Dispensation, was thus penanced and relieved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penanced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
