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What is a sanbenito?

What is a sanbenito? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A sackcloth coat worn by penitents on being reconciled to the church.
  2. (historical) A garment or cap, or sometimes both, painted with flames, figures, etc., and worn by those who had been examined by the Inquisition and were brought forth for the auto da fe.
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This saco bendito became known as the sanbenito or, more commonly, abito and was necessarily inherited by the new Inquisition.
Valer's sanbenito was displayed for a long time in the metropolitan church of Seville.
He continued his apostolate and, on a second trial, he was condemned to perpetual prison and sanbenito.
I would rather have put on a sanbenito myself than have gone there.
Two years and a half were spent on the trials of Diego and Ana, ending with a sentence of irremissible prison and sanbenito.
He had received 150,000 maraveds by selling to penitents exemptions from wearing the sanbenito, or penitential garment.

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