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11 INQUISITION IN ARAGON. 1 I over them, and, beneath his effigy, a bas-relief was chapteu sculptured representing his tragical death, with an — inscription containing a suitable denunciation of the race of Israel. And at length, when the lapse of nearly two centuries had supplied the requisite amount of miracles, the Spanish Inquisition had the glory of adding a new saint to the calendar, by the canonization of the martyr under Pope Alexander the Seventh, in 1664.^^ The failure of the attempt to shake ofif the tribu- inquisition ■^ _ throughout nal, served only, as usual in such cases, to establish do^^^^f* it more firmly than before. Efforts at resistance were subsequently, but ineffectually, made in other parts of Aragon, and in Valencia and Catalonia. It was not established in the latter province till 1487, and some years later in Sicily, Sardinia, and the Balearic Isles. Thus Ferdinand had the mel- ancholy satisfaction of riveting the most galling yoke ever devised by fanaticism, round the necks of a people, who till that period had enjoyed proba- bly the greatest degree of constitutional freedom which the world had witnessed. the corpse of the inquisitor was de I'Inquisition, chap. 6, art. 4. brought to the place where he had France and Italy also, according to been assassinated, the blood, which Llorente, could each boast a saint had been coagulated on the pave- inquisitor. Their renown, how- ment, smoked up and boiled with ever, has been eclipsed by the most miraculous fervor ! De Ori- superior splendors of their great gine Inquisitionis, p. 382. master, St. Dominic ; 11 Paramo, De Origine Inqui- — "Filsinconnusd'unsi glorieux pSre." sitionis, p. 183. — Llorente, Hist.