1491 – An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
The Holy Child of La Guardia (Spanish: El Santo Niño de La Guardia) was the subject of a medieval blood libel in the town of La Guardia in the central Spanish province of Toledo (Castile–La Mancha).[1][2]
On November 16, 1491, an auto-da-fé was held outside of Ávila that ended in the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects who confessed to the crime under torture. Among the executed were Benito Garcia, the converso who initially confessed to the murder.[3] However, no body was ever found and there is no evidence that a child disappeared; because of contradictory confessions, the court had trouble coherently depicting how events possibly took place.[4]
Like Pedro de Arbués, the Holy Infant 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.
The Holy Child has been called “the most infamous case of blood libel in Iberia”.[5] The incident took place one year before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain,[5] and the Holy Child was possibly used as a pretext for the expulsion.[2]
The 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia stated that the allegation “has been well named ‘one of the most notable and disastrous lies of history'”.[6] However, in 2016, the Archdiocese of Madrid’s official website still maintained that the alleged events actually took place.[7] An American historian, William Thomas Walsh, defended the validity of the charge, impugning the honesty of Henry Charles Lea, who had earlier exposed it as a fraudulent prosecution.[8]
1899 – Mary Margaret McBride, American radio host (d. 1976)
Mary Margaret McBride (November 16, 1899 – April 7, 1976) was an American radio interview host and writer. Her popular radio shows spanned more than 40 years. In the 1940s the daily audience for her housewife-oriented program numbered from six to eight million listeners. She was called “The First Lady of Radio.”
Early life
McBride was born on November 16, 1899 in Paris, Missouri, to a farming family. Their frequent relocations disorganized her early schooling, but at the age of six she became a student at a preparatory school called William Woods College, and at 16 the University of Missouri, receiving a degree in journalism there in 1919. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta at the University of Missouri.[1]
She worked a year as a reporter at the Cleveland Press, and then until 1924 at the New York Evening Mail. Following this, she wrote freelance for periodicals including The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and starting in 1926 collaborated in writing travel-oriented books.
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