It has been 160 years since Barcelona's auto-de-fé

On October 9, 1861, at half past ten in the morning, on the city's esplanade, at the place where criminals sentenced to death by tourniquet were executed, three hundred spiritist volumes or brochures were burned by order of the Bishop of Barcelona. Rogério Miguez analyzes, in a special article, the sad and lamentable episode that, as we know, was not able to suffocate Spiritism, whose main work - The Spirits' Book - had appeared only 4 years before.

Professor Luís Fernando Baia Antonietto, from Campinas (SP), is our interviewee this week. Professor of the discipline of History at UNIP - Universidade Paulista in Campinas, he participates in the spiritist works of the activities of Morada Espírita Prof. Lairi Hans, where he works in study groups. The interview, given to our colleague Orson Peter Carrara, is one of the highlights of this edition.