TRAIL DUST: MEXICAN INQUISITION IN 1668 TAKES NOTICE OF THE GERMAN'S 'MAGIC PAPERS'

  [Bernardo Gruber]'s troubles began when several Pueblo Indians told their mission priest that he had instructed them in a bizarre supernatural practice. The priest at once notified the Inquisition's agent, Padre [Juan Bernal]. Bernal decided that the crime was so grave Gruber ought to be...

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Published inThe Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M. : 1988)
Main Author Marc Simmons, Photo courtesy of L.A. Mitchell
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Santa Fe, N.M Santa Fe New Mexican 30.11.2002
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Bernal, Juan
Gruber, Bernardo
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Summary:  [Bernardo Gruber]'s troubles began when several Pueblo Indians told their mission priest that he had instructed them in a bizarre supernatural practice. The priest at once notified the Inquisition's agent, Padre [Juan Bernal]. Bernal decided that the crime was so grave Gruber ought to be sent to Mexico City to stand trial before the high tribunal of the Inquisition. He was placed in chains and imprisoned in a cell at Abo Mission. A few weeks later, Capt. Andres de Peralta, leading a patrol along a desert road in southern New Mexico, came upon a grisly scene. As he wrote to the governor in Santa Fe: "I found a roan horse tied to a tree. It was dead. Nearby were a coat and trousers of blue cloth, and they seemed to belong to the fugitive Bernardo Gruber."
ISSN:1938-4068