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Convinced he was the Elijah Messiah, the Spanish peasant Bartolom S nchez believed that God had sent him in divine retribution for the crimes committed by the Inquisition and the Church. S nchez's vocal and intolerable religious deviance quickly landed him in the very court he believed he was sent to destroy. Fortunately for him, the first inquisitor assigned to his case came to believe that S nchez was not guilty by virtue of insanity, and tried to collect the proof that would save his life. A gripping tale of madness and religious conviction, Mad for God offers new historical insight into the ongoing debate over the nature of religious inspiration, insanity, and criminal responsibility.

By Sara Tilghman Nalle. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia.

Nalle tells the story of a sixteenth-century man whose ideas about God and Catholicism ran afoul of the inquisition, and the inquisitor who tried to understand him. Get A Copy.

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Nalle convincingly evokes the compassion of Sánchez's first inquisitor, Pedro Cortes, as he struggled to save his prisoner's life, and argues that the Spanish, compared to other Europeans of the day, were remarkably rational and humane when dealing with the mentally ill.

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The Church showed no respect for those claiming to be the Messiah, for only Jesus Christ, the son of God Himself, is the Messiah. The life of the common peasant was quite grim. The peasant faced violence, widespread disease, cruel laws, and the fierce elements. The peasant had virtually nothing going for him, except his faith.

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Convinced he was the Elijah Messiah, the Spanish peasant Bartolomé Sánchez believed that God had sent him in divine retribution for the crimes committed by the Inquisition and the Church

Convinced he was the Elijah Messiah, the Spanish peasant Bartolomé Sánchez believed that God had sent him in divine retribution for the crimes committed by the Inquisition and the Church. Sánchez's vocal and intolerable religious deviance quickly landed him in the very court he believed he was sent to destroy. Fortunately for him, the first inquisitor assigned to his case came to believe that Sánchez was not guilty by virtue of insanity, and tried to collect the proof that would save his life. For seven years, Sánchez shuttled between jails, hospitals, and his home village while his fate.

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