"Auto de Fe" at Mani

                                     Auto de Fe at Mani

            The auto de fe at Mani may be the first great political/economic scandal affecting both the New World and the Old World.

               Among Europeans it frightened the Aristocracy, the Church, the military, and the great merchants and traders in Mexico City, Madrid, Rome, and beyond.

               At first it may seem a case of business as usual. A churchman caused a few Indians to be punished and a relatively small amount of their religious and cultural items to be destroyed. A common occurrence between Old Word "conquers" and New world "conquered."

            However in this case.....   

Should I continue the story?

Do you want to?

Should we both?

by Richard Sheehan

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