relajado

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• Los condenados a muerte eran "relajados al brazo secular", es decir, entregados a la justicia del rey, porque la Iglesia no podía ejecutar; los que se arrepentían eran estrangulados antes de la hoguera, y solo los que no, quemados vivos.Those condemned to death were "relaxed to the secular arm", that is, handed over to the king's justice, because the Church could not execute; those who repented were strangled before the pyre, and only those who did not were burned alive.C1La Inquisición española — The Spanish Inquisition