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Holy Child of La Guardia, the Glossary

The Holy Child of La Guardia (El Santo Niño de La Guardia) is a folk saint in Spanish Roman Catholicism and the subject of a medieval blood libel in the town of La Guardia in the central Spanish province of Toledo (Castile–La Mancha).^[1]

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15th-century Spanish people
15th-century crime
Child murder in Spain
Folk Catholicism
Province of Toledo
Spanish Inquisition
Spanish children
Trinitarian saints
Unsolved murders in Spain

Alfonso X of Castile

Alfonso X (also known as the Wise, el Sabio; 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284) was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284.

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Alhambra Decree

The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year. Holy Child of La Guardia and Alhambra Decree are Spanish Inquisition.

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Aljama

Aljama is a term of Arabic origin used in old official documents in Spain and Portugal to designate the self-governing communities of Moors and Jews living under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Apostasy

Apostasy (defection, revolt) is the formal disaffiliation from, abandonment of, or renunciation of a religion by a person.

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Astorga, Spain

Astorga (Leonese: Estorga) is a municipality and city of Spain located in the central area of the province of León, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, southwest of the provincial capital.

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Auto-da-fé

An auto-da-fé (from Portuguese auto de fé, meaning 'act of faith'; auto de fe) was the ritual of public penance, carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries, of condemned heretics and apostates imposed by the Spanish, Portuguese, or Mexican Inquisition as punishment and enforced by civil authorities. Holy Child of La Guardia and auto-da-fé are Spanish Inquisition.

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Ávila

Ávila is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Blood libel

Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic canardTurvey, Brent E. Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, Academic Press, 2008, p. 3.

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Carding

Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing.

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Castilla–La Mancha

Castilla–La Mancha is an autonomous community of Spain.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Converso

A converso (feminine form conversa), "convert", was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants. Holy Child of La Guardia and converso are Spanish Inquisition.

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Crypto-Judaism

Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos – κρυπτός, 'hidden'). Holy Child of La Guardia and Crypto-Judaism are Spanish Inquisition.

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Cult (religious practice)

Cult is the care (Latin: cultus) owed to deities and temples, shrines, or churches.

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Defendant

In court proceedings, a defendant is a person or object who is the party either accused of committing a crime in criminal prosecution or against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case.

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Diarmaid MacCulloch

Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch (born 31 October 1951) is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity.

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Dominguito del Val

Dominguito del Val (c. 1243 – c. 1250) was a legendary child in medieval Spain, allegedly a choirboy ritually murdered by Jews in Zaragoza (Saragossa). Holy Child of La Guardia and Dominguito del Val are folk Catholicism, folk saints and Spanish children.

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Expulsion of Jews from Spain

The Expulsion of Jews from Spain was the expulsion of practicing Jews following the Alhambra Decree in 1492, which was enacted to eliminate their influence on Spain's large converso population and to ensure its members did not revert to Judaism. Holy Child of La Guardia and expulsion of Jews from Spain are Spanish Inquisition.

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Fidel Fita

Fidel Fita Colomé or, in Catalan, Fidel Fita i Colomer (31 December 1835, Arenys de Mar - 13 January 1918, Madrid) was a Spanish-Catalonian archaeologist, philologist, and historian.

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Folk Catholicism

Folk Catholicism can be broadly described as various ethnic expressions and practices of Catholicism intermingled with aspects of folk religion.

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Folk saint

Folk saints are dead people or other spiritually powerful entities (such as indigenous spirits) venerated as saints, but not officially canonized. Holy Child of La Guardia and Folk saint are folk saints.

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Gabriel of Białystok

Gabriel of Białystok (Gabriel Białostocki; Gavriil Belostoksky), also known as Gabriel of Zabłudów (Gabriel Zabłudowski; alternatively Gavrila or Gavriil; – April 20, 1690), is a child saint in the Russian Orthodox Church and Polish Orthodox Church.

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Good Friday

Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

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Granada War

The Granada War (Guerra de Granada) was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492 during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, against the Nasrid dynasty's Emirate of Granada.

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Grand Inquisitor

Grand Inquisitor (Inquisitor Generalis, literally Inquisitor General or General Inquisitor) was the lead official of the Inquisition. Holy Child of La Guardia and Grand Inquisitor are Spanish Inquisition.

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (17 February 1836 – 22 December 1870), better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing.

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Heresy

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization.

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History of the Jews in Spain

The history of the Jews in the current-day Spanish territory stretches back to Biblical times according to Jewish tradition, but the settlement of organised Jewish communities in the Iberian Peninsula possibly traces back to the times after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

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Isabella I of Castile

Isabella I (Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504), also called Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Isabel la Católica), was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. Holy Child of La Guardia and Isabella I of Castile are Spanish Inquisition.

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José de Cañizares

José de Cañizares y Suárez (4 July 1676 – 4 September 1750) was a Spanish playwright.

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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La Guardia, Spain

La Guardia is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

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Limpieza de sangre

Limpieza de sangre, also known as limpeza de sangue or neteja de sang, literally 'cleanliness of blood' and meaning 'blood purity', was a racially discriminatory term used in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires during the early modern period to refer to those who were considered to be Old Christians by virtue of not having Muslim, Jewish, Romani, or Agote ancestors. Holy Child of La Guardia and Limpieza de sangre are Spanish Inquisition.

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List of unsolved murders (before 1900)

This list of unsolved murders includes notable cases where victims have been murdered under unknown circumstances.

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Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln

Hugh of Lincoln (1246 – 27 August 1255) was an English boy whose death in Lincoln was falsely attributed to Jews. Holy Child of La Guardia and Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln are folk Catholicism and folk saints.

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Lope de Vega

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature.

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Menahem Mendel Beilis

Menahem Mendel Beilis (sometimes spelled Beiliss; מנחם מענדל בייליס, Менахем Мендель Бейлис; 1874 – 7 July 1934) was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kiev in the Russian Empire in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the "Beilis trial" or the "Beilis affair".

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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National Archives of Spain

The National Archives of Spain is a national system of Archives and State Centers maintained by the Archive (Archivo) department of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

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Pedro de Arbués

Pedro de Arbués, also known as Peter of Arbués (c. 1441 – 17 September 1485) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a professed Augustinian canon. Holy Child of La Guardia and Pedro de Arbués are 15th-century Christian saints.

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Persecution of Christians

The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day.

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Province of León

León is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Province of Toledo

Toledo is a province of central Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha.

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Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian-born British writer of romance and adventure novels.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Madrid (Archidioecesis Metropolitae Matritensis) is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Spain.

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Sacramental bread

Sacramental bread, also called Communion bread, Communion wafer, Sacred host, Eucharistic bread, the Lamb or simply the host (lit), is the bread used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist.

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Salamanca

Salamanca is a municipality and city in Spain, capital of the province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Satanic panic

The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.

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Segovia

Segovia is a city in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain.

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Sepúlveda, Segovia

Sepúlveda is a municipality located in the province of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain.

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Siete Partidas

The Siete Partidas ("Seven-Part Code") or simply Partidas, was a Castilian statutory code first compiled during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile (1252–1284), with the intent of establishing a uniform body of normative rules for the kingdom.

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Simon of Trent

Simon of Trent (Simon von Trient, also known as Simon Unverdorben (meaning Simon Immaculate in German); Simonino di Trento), also known as Simeon (1472–1475), was a young boy from the city of Trent (now Trento in northern Italy), in the Prince-Bishopric of Trent, whose disappearance and death was blamed on the leaders of the city's Jewish community, based on the confessions of Jews obtained under judicial torture. Holy Child of La Guardia and Simon of Trent are folk Catholicism and folk saints.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish Golden Age

The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro ˈsiɣlo ðe ˈoɾo, "Golden Century") was a period that coincided with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Spanish Habsburgs.

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Spanish Inquisition

The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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Tembleque, Spain

Tembleque is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

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Tomás de Torquemada

Tomás de Torquemada (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), also anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Castilian Dominican friar and first Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office (otherwise known as the Spanish Inquisition). Holy Child of La Guardia and Tomás de Torquemada are Spanish Inquisition.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Child_of_La_Guardia

Also known as Santo Niño de La Guardia.

, Segovia, Sepúlveda, Segovia, Siete Partidas, Simon of Trent, Spain, Spanish Golden Age, Spanish Inquisition, Tembleque, Spain, Tomás de Torquemada, Valencia, Yitzhak Baer, Zaragoza.

Holy Child of La Guardia, the Glossary

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See also

15th-century Spanish people

15th-century crime

Child murder in Spain

Folk Catholicism

Province of Toledo

Spanish Inquisition

Spanish children

Trinitarian saints

Unsolved murders in Spain

References