"Every word of theirs was a sentence of death and at their slightest nod were moved to terror the vast populations spr…"

"The Inquisition was an infamous tribunal at all places. But the infamy never reached greater depths, nor was more vil…"

"The cruelties which in the name of the religion of peace and love this tribunal practiced in Europe, were carried to …"

"The Portuguese friars and priests had been destroying Hindu temples in Portugal's Indian possessions for quite some t…"

"The Portuguese in this matter as in others followed the custom of the country: Linschoten recorded that they (Portugu…"

"In its two and a half centuries of existence at Goa, the Inquisition burned at the stake 57 alive and 64 in effigy. O…"

"Uruguay-based Alfredo de Mello, a Goan born historian, in his Memoirs of Goa (2003) writes how in a span of 252 years…"

"The Portuguese power became ruthless the more it got itself established in India. Royal Charters were issued from tim…"

"In 1534 Goa was made a bishopric with authority extending over the entire Far East. Special instructions were issued …"

"In the principal market was raised an engine of great height, at top like a Gibbet, with a pulley …which unhinges a m…"