a confessor to tortured and convicted “witches,” became an outspoken opponent of torture. In 1631, Spee denounced the violence inflicted upon “countless innocents daily.”
Monday, June 1, 2009
Cautio Criminalis
The German Jesuit Friedrich Spee von Lagenfeld, Anyone could be made to confess; torture had been “all powerful” in the witch hunts.
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