auto da fe in English

(Latin - literal meaning: "act of faith", formal passing of sentence by the Spanish Inquisition on religious offenses; public burning at stake of heretics sentenced by the Inquisitio

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1. Scrub Wrens with Auto Da Fe and Matt Ellis

2. Auto da fe premiered in New York City in 1947.

3. Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe.

4. "Auto da fe" means "Act of Faith." The first Spanish auto-da-fe was held on this day February 6, 1481, when six men and six women, who refused to repent of alleged backsliding, were burned at the stake

5. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1993 CD release of "Auto Da Fe" on Discogs.

6. Auto da fe (plural Auto da fes or autos da fe) The public announcement of the sentences imposed by the Inquisition on supposed heretics

7. Martin Kvisvic and Tara Tavi of Amps for Christ teamed up in Auto Da Fe to mess up with the geopolitics of our planet

8. Before the Irish Auto Da Fe got underway, Gay spent some time living in Holland where the original line-up of the band was formed with Dutch musicians

9. Writer George Szirtes and artist Ronald King collaborated on this sequence of 14 poems and 15 etchings, inspired by Elias Canetti’s famously grotesque yet marvelous novel Auto da Fe set in pre-war Vienna

10. Auto Da Fe was a theatrically-inclined, keyboard/electronics dominated new wave band formed in Holland in 1980 by Gay with new partner Trevor Knight (ex jazzrockers No Buckets and 'experimental jazz fusion' (jazzrock) band Naima)

11. An auto da fe in the Town of San Bartolomé Otzolotepec - Google Art Project.jpg 2,009 × 1,334; 1.16 MB Auto de fe 1656.JPG 1,401 × 1,050; 470 KB Auto de la Fe - Lima - 23 de enero de 1639.jpg 740 × 1,120; 111 KB

12. The book opens with the words "Dedicated to victims of Auto da Fe." Leonard Bernstein composed and produced a musical adaptation of Voltaire's Candide in 1956, featuring a song called Auto-da-Fé that includes the chorus, "It's a lovely day for drinking and for watching people fry," referring to the spectacle of public executions.