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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
    "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
    "published_on": "2011"
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      "chunk_title": "Anticipation of the Inquisition",
      "chunk_data": "31. FIRST INQUISITION AT GOA (1543 A.D.)\nThough the Inquisition was officially instituted at Goa only in 1560, it was anticipated in the incident described by Gasper Correia in Lendas da India, Livro quarto, Tomo IV, pp. 292-294, cited in A. K. Priolkar, The Goa Inquisition, pp. 22-23.",
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        "event": "The 1543 incident at Goa anticipated the formal institution of the Inquisition in 1560.",
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      "chunk_title": "Jeronimo Dias Accused",
      "chunk_data": "In this very year (1543) it came to pass that a bachelor of medicine residing in Goa, named Jeronimo Dias, of the caste of New Christians, in the course of familiar discourses with his friends, spoke of certain things which were against our holy faith.",
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        "event": "Jeronimo Dias discussed views that were considered contrary to the Catholic faith.",
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      "chunk_title": "Dias Arrested and Tried",
      "chunk_data": "The bishop, on being informed of this, ordered that he should be arrested and tried and that witnesses should be examined. When arrested, together with certain other persons who had discoursed with him, he continued to uphold certain things of the old law against our holy faith, all of which showed clearly that he was a Jew, and the proceedings were concluded.",
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        "event": "The bishop ordered Jeronimo Dias's arrest and trial, and the proceedings concluded after Dias continued to defend elements of the old law.",
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      "chunk_data": "The bishop thereupon went to the residence of the Governor where a council was held, at which were also present the teacher Diogo (Borba), Friar Antonio, commissary of St. Francis and preacher, another Dominican preacher and the Vicar General (Miguel Vaz). Having seen the papers of the case, they pronounced sentence, which was signed by the Bishop and ran as follows:",
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        "event": "The bishop convened a council at the governor's residence, where church officials examined the case and pronounced sentence.",
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      "chunk_title": "Sentence of Burning",
      "chunk_data": "'Having seen the sentence of the Holy Church, in which bachelor Jeronimo Dias, stands condemned in a case of heresy, the justice of our sire the King, pronounces sentence to the effect that in respect of the said case, by public proclamation your body be burnt alive and reduced to ashes, for heresy against our holy Catholic faith.",
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        "event": "The sentence condemned Jeronimo Dias to be publicly burned alive and reduced to ashes for heresy.",
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      "chunk_title": "Pardon and Confession Offered",
      "chunk_data": "In case you seek pardon and repent and confess your error and desire to die as a Christian, you shall be first strangled to death so that you may not feel the torments of fire.'",
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        "event": "The sentence offered Dias pardon and death by strangulation if he repented, confessed, and wished to die as a Christian.",
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      "chunk_title": "Dias Repents His Error",
      "chunk_data": "While the case was thus being dealt with by the Governor's council, teacher Diogo spoke to the bachelor and sternly rebuked him. As a result, the latter was made to repent and realize his error, so that when the secular sentence was pronounced as stated above, he heard it patiently, thus accusing himself of his sin in public.",
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      "chunk_title": "Dias Executed and Burned",
      "chunk_data": "Soon he was sent to the prison, where he asked for confession and was confessed by teacher Diogo. He was taken to the pillory, accompanied as an act of mercy by teacher Diogo who accompanied him until he was strangled, and was burnt and was reduced to ashes.",
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      "chunk_title": "Bishop Proclaims the Inquisition",
      "chunk_data": "Soon after, on the following Sunday, the bishop preached at the Cathedral Church. From the pulpit he read the bull of the Holy Inquisition, and gave information only of the penalty of excommunication in order that all those who learnt of the errors of Christian men and women who in their lives or usages practise heresies against our Holy faith should disclose the same; the other provisions of the Holy Inquisition would not be used for the present until express orders of our sire the king were received.",
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