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The Holy Child of La Guardia ((スペイン語:El Santo Niño de La Guardia)) (died 1491) was the subject of a medieval blood libel (the false, antisemetic accusation of a ritual murder by Jews) in the town of La Guardia in the central Spanish province of Toledo (Castile–La Mancha).〔(La Guardian, Holy Child of ), ''Encyclopaedia Judaica''.〕〔Robert Michael, ''A History of Catholic Antisemitism: The Dark Side of the Church'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), p. 70.〕 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.〔Reston, James: "Dogs of Gods: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the defeat of the Moors", page 207. Doubleday, 2005. ISBN 0-385-50848-4〕 However, no body was ever found, and because of contradictory confessions, the court had trouble coherently depicting how events took place.〔Smelik, Klaas: "Herleefde Tijd: Een Joodse Geschiedenis", page 198. Acco, 2004. ISBN 90-334-5508-0〕 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."〔Irene Silverblatt, "New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth-Century Peru" in ''From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures'' (Duke University Press, 1998: ed. Brian Keith Axel), p. 98.〕 The incident took place one year before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain,〔 and the Holy Child was possibly used as a pretext for the expulsion.〔 The 1912 ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' stated that the allegation "has been well named "one of the most notable and disastrous lies of history."〔Douglas Raymund Webster, (Catholic Encyclopedia St. William of Norwich ), ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Co. (1912).〕 ==Background== During the Middle Ages there were frequent blood libels leveled against the Jews, and the Seven Part Code of Castile echoed this popular belief:
Certainly several similar episodes had occurred in Spain. One of the most well known was the supposed crucifixion of the boy Saint Domingo of Val in Zaragosa in the 13th century and also the boy of Sepúlveda in 1468. This last incident resulted not only in the execution of sixteen Jews found guilty of the crime but also resulted in a popular assault on the Jewish community (Aljama) in Sepúlveda, which claimed more victims. England, among other European countries, was not without its own blood libel legends as can be seen from the legend of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln. There is no evidence that any of the murders or related crimes ever took place. The accusations and consequent punishments of those accused are understood to be examples of antisemitism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Holy Child of La Guardia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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