Plague Ship Quotes

“The first public execution, an auto-da-fé, took place in Seville on February 6, 1481, only months after the Inquisition was begun. Six people were burned at stake. The priest Alonso de Hajeda trumphantly preached the sermon that day, but within days he was dead of the plague himself. In other times, the disappearances of the most vocal advocate of the Inquisition might have put an end to the enterprise. But Hajeda had unleashed something very big and very ugly.”
― Kirstin Downey, Plague Ship: The Untold Story of Captain Cook and His Legacy