Holy Child of La Guardia
El Santo Niño de La Guardia or the Holy Infant of La Guardia was the alleged victim of a
ritual murder by
Jews in the north-western
Spanish province of
Pontevedra (
Galicia) in
1491. Like
Pedro de Arbués he was quickly made into a
saint by popular acclaim, and his death greatly assisted the
Spanish Inquisition and its
Inquisitor General, Tomás de
Torquemada, in their campaign against
heresy and
crypto-Judaism. The
cult of the Holy Infant is still celebrated in La Guardia.
References
- Simon Whitechapel, Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition (Creation Books, 2003). ISBN 1840681055