The Questions of Zapata
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with those who dare to doubt? Must I, for their edification, have the ordinary and extraordinary question put to them?[1]
I await the honour of your reply,
Dominico Zapata,
y verdadero, y honrado,
y caricativo.
Zapata, receiving no answer, took to preaching God in all simplicity. He announced to men the common father, the rewarder, punisher, and pardoner. He extricated the truth from the lies, and separated religion from fanaticism; he taught and practised virtue. He was gentle, kindly, and modest; and he was burned at Valladolid in the year of grace 1631. Pray God for the soul of Brother Zapata.
- ↑ The tortures of the Inquisition.—J. M.
