Pedro de Arbués Saint

Pedro de Arbués, C.R.S.A. (c. 1441 – September 17, 1485), was an official of the Spanish Inquisition who was assassinated in the La Seo Cathedral of Zaragoza in 1485 in an alleged plot by conversos and Jews. He was very quickly venerated as a saint by popular acclaim, and his death greatly assisted the Inquisition and its Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in their campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.Arbués was canonized in 1867.

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Pedro de Arbués
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1441
Birth place
Kingdom of Aragon
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1485
Place of death
Zaragoza , Kingdom of Aragon
TitleReligious priest and martyr

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canonized by
Pope Pius IX
canonized place
Rome
Papal States
major shrine
La Seo Cathedral
Zaragoza
venerated in
Canons Regular
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zaragoza
Catholic Church

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