Holy Child of La Guardia

El Santo Niño de La Guardia or the Holy Infant of La Guardia[?] was the alleged victim of a ritual murder by Jews in the north-western Spanish province of Pontevedra (Galicia) in 1491. Like Pedro de Arbués he 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.

References

Simon Whitechapel, Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition (Creation Books, 2003). ISBN 1840681055