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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Facultad, que el Confessor Fr. Mariano Cassas Religioso Francisco Conventual en Puebla, solicitó del Tribunal para absolver âun Penitente que incurrió en el Crimen de Heregía, y no quiso expontanearse, la que se le concedió, y fué; absuelta ad cautelam

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Title

  • Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Facultad, que el Confessor Fr. Mariano Cassas Religioso Francisco Conventual en Puebla, solicitó del Tribunal para absolver âun Penitente que incurrió en el Crimen de Heregía, y no quiso expontanearse, la que se le concedió, y fué; absuelta ad cautelam

Names

  • Holy Office of the Inquisition, Mexico

Created / Published

  • Puebla and Mexico City, 1785

Headings

  • -  Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810
  • -  Inquisition--Mexico
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  On January 8, 1785, a letter from Fr. Mariano Cassas, a Franciscan friar of Puebla, was received by the Inquisition in Mexico. He asked for the faculty to absolve a penitent who had committed heresy in secret and who, even though he had repented, was unwilling to accuse himself before the Inquisition. The reply of the Inquisitor was that the penitent should be encouraged to accuse himself and that the special faculty would be given to the confessor only as a last resort. (Leaf 1.) On January 12 Santiago Martínez Rincón, secretary of the Inquisition, sent the Tribunal's reply to Cassas by way of Joseph Suárez, commissary of the Inquisition in Puebla. Suárez signed a receipt for the communication on January 15, and the Tribunal in Mexico City received this receipt on January 18. (Leaf 2.) On the cover of the letter from the Tribunal, Cassas also wrote a receipt for the letter (leaf 3).

Medium

  • 12 leaves [title page, 3 blank]

Source Collection

  • Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1877

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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Online Format

  • pdf
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Holy Office Of The Inquisition, Mexico. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Facultad, que el Confessor Fr. Mariano Cassas Religioso Francisco Conventual en Puebla, solicitó del Tribunal para absolver âun Penitente que incurrió en el Crimen de Heregía, y no quiso expontanearse, la que se le concedió, y fué; absuelta ad cautelam. Puebla and Mexico City, 1785. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-15900/.

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Holy Office Of The Inquisition, M. (1785) Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Facultad, que el Confessor Fr. Mariano Cassas Religioso Francisco Conventual en Puebla, solicitó del Tribunal para absolver âun Penitente que incurrió en el Crimen de Heregía, y no quiso expontanearse, la que se le concedió, y fué; absuelta ad cautelam. Puebla and Mexico City. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-15900/.

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Holy Office Of The Inquisition, Mexico. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Facultad, que el Confessor Fr. Mariano Cassas Religioso Francisco Conventual en Puebla, solicitó del Tribunal para absolver âun Penitente que incurrió en el Crimen de Heregía, y no quiso expontanearse, la que se le concedió, y fué; absuelta ad cautelam. Puebla and Mexico City, 1785. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-15900/>.