All this was repeated when the usual confessors were admitted to his cell and, when morning came and the sanbenito was brought, he kissed it, saying that he put it on with more pleasure than any garment he had ever worn.
The culprit marched in the procession bearing the mitre and sanbenito of relaxation, which were removed on the staging in order that he might be seen in his priestly vestments and tonsure.
Although, in the early period, the sanbenito was imposed perpetually, the expression is to be taken in the same sense as imprisonment.
With the recrudescence of persecution in the first half of the eighteenth century, there was greater severity--irremissible prison and sanbenito for life and, in a Barcelona case of 1723, a woman had two hundred lashes in addition.
Anchias, the secretary of the Saragossa tribunal, tells us how Juan Geronimo was sentenced to wear the sanbenito and carried it for a long time, until his father paid for him to the tribunal a thousand florins for permission to abandon it.
Moix, however, on his liberation, found that his sanbenito was not included in the bargain and he had to pay a hundred libras more for its removal.
The consulta de fe was puzzled and, on reference to the Suprema, it ordered her to be secretly reconciled, the sanbenito to be at once removed, and her reclusion for a year in a convent cell.
Still another pious use is indicated in an order from the Suprema, in 1549, to the tribunal of Granada, to commute the sanbenito of Catalina Ramirez into spiritual works and such pecuniary penance as she could pay for pious uses.
Of these punishments the one most productive and most commonly commuted was the sanbenito or penitential habit, release from which in the early period, as we have seen, was reckoned, in one case at least, at a thousand gold florins.
Guiral, the embezzling inquisitor of Cordova, could easily secrete a hundred and fifty thousand maravedis from the dispensations sold to the wearers of the sanbenito (Vol.
On another occasion he told the same prisoner that his daughter had been relieved of the sanbenito and he conveyed a paper from him to them.
There were other sources of revenue--rehabilitations or dispensations from the sanbenito and disabilities, commutations of punishment and the pecuniary penances known as penas y penitencias.
He approached a Morisca who, with her three daughters, had been reconciled, and offered to relieve her of her sanbenito for two hundred ducats, and those of her three daughters if one of them would abandon herself to him.
As such his sentence was read with open doors, he appeared in a sanbenito de dos aspas, was reconciled, verbally degraded and recluded irremissibly for life in a convent where, for two years he was shut up in a cell, under instruction.
They led him, robed in that great sanbenito you have often seen, to the Church of San Salvador, to sit and listen, with the other weeping penitents, while some ignorant priest denounced their heresies and blasphemies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sanbenito" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
