// Porto, Portugal: Monument to the City’s Victims of the Portuguese Inquisition

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The Portuguese Inquisition, officially known as the General Council of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Portugal, was formally established in Portugal in 1536 at the request of King John III. In the period after the Medieval Inquisition, it was one of three different manifestations of the wider Christian Inquisition — which cruelly targeted Jews and Jews who had converted to Catholicism — along with the Spanish Inquisition and the Roman Inquisition. Today’s Jewish community of Porto (also known as Oporto) — Portugal’s second-largest city — has inaugurated a memorial to that community’s Inquisition victims.
 
Quote: “Drawing on newly digitized records, the community was able to identify 842 people, ranging from 10 to 110 years old, who were victims of the Inquisition locally. The community inaugurated a memorial engraved with their names. The memorial, dedicated during a special event called the European Day of Jewish Culture, measures 13 feet wide by 6.5 feet high and is installed on an exterior wall of Porto’s Jewish Museum.”
— The Jerusalem Post
 
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Photo: The Times of Israel
 
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