Goa Inquisition

References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Images

Procession of the Goa Inquisition

Black and white wood engraving by Paul Hardy showing a bearded man standing before the Grand Inquisitor and hooded officials at a tribunal during the Spanish Inquisition.

Engraving depicting a dungeon scene during the Spanish Inquisition, with hooded figures torturing prisoners using various devices while officials observe and record at a table.

Map highlighting the location of Goa on the western coast of India along the Arabian Sea, with its capital Panaji marked. Surrounding countries including Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives are shown in context.

Basilica of Bom Jesus

Goa, India: Roman Catholic Basilica of Bom Jesus

Marquis de Pombal

Goa Inquisition: Media

Portuguese and Indian history

Images

Procession of the Goa Inquisition

Procession of the Goa Inquisition

Engraving depicting a procession of the Goa Inquisition with the accused following...

Engraving by Bernard Picart/Wellcome Collection, London

Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama

Knight of the Order of Christ, detail identified as Vasco da Gama, Portuguese...

Daniel Villafruela

Black and white wood engraving by Paul Hardy showing a bearded man standing before the Grand Inquisitor and hooded officials at a tribunal during the Spanish Inquisition.

Spanish Inquisition

Depiction of a Spanish Jew standing before the grand inquisitor in the late 1400s.

© Photos.com/Getty Images

Engraving depicting a dungeon scene during the Spanish Inquisition, with hooded figures torturing prisoners using various devices while officials observe and record at a table.

Inquisition

Suspected Protestants being tortured as heretics during the Spanish Inquisition.

©Steven Wright/Dreamstime.com

Map highlighting the location of Goa on the western coast of India along the Arabian Sea, with its capital Panaji marked. Surrounding countries including Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives are shown in context.

Goa, India

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Basilica of Bom Jesus

Basilica of Bom Jesus

The remains of St. Francis Xavier, who helped instigate the Goa Inquisition, can...

© Aliaksandr Mazurkevich/Dreamstime.com

Goa, India: Roman Catholic Basilica of Bom Jesus

Goa, India: Roman Catholic Basilica of Bom Jesus

The Roman Catholic Basilica of Bom Jesus, 16th century, Goa, India.

Frederick M. Asher

Marquis de Pombal

Marquis de Pombal

Statue of Sebastião de Carvalho, marquês de Pombal, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Deror avi

VIEW MORE in these related Britannica articles: