At first, and down to Eymeric’s day, the _sanbenito_ preserved its original form--a tunic similar to that worn by the members of regular orders. But in the fourteenth century it was altered to a scapulary or tabard, with an opening at the top through which the head was passed; it was to be of the full width of the body, and to descend no lower than the knees, lest it should too closely resemble the scapulary which the regulars wore in addition to their tunic. Soon after it was resolved that it should be of yellow sackcloth, and that the crosses should be red. Once this stage was reached, it may be said that the transition from a garment solely of penitence into a garment chiefly of shame and infamy was complete. [Illustration: _Photo by Donald Macbeth._ PROCESSION TO AUTO DE FÉ. From Limborch’s “Historia Inquisitionis.”] We have said that the imposition of the _sanbenito_ had been falling into desuetude during the fifteenth century. But for Torquemada it might indeed have become entirely obsolete. It happened, however, that the Prior of Holy Cross perceived the virtues of it, the salutary results to be obtained from parading the victims of the Holy Office in that hideous garb. Therefore he revived it, and strongly enjoined its use by all offenders save those against whom there was no more than evil reputation, and who submitted themselves to be purged of this canonically. It was not, however, until the famous Ximenes de Cisneros, who became Grand Inquisitor some ten years after Torquemada’s death--that the _sanbenito_ attained its full development, the form which it was to preserve until the extinction of the Inquisition. Cisneros substituted for the ordinary rectangular cross worn on back and breast of the _sanbenito_ an _aspa_, or St. Andrew’s cross, and he otherwise disposed that the _sanbenito_ might proclaim the offence and sentence of its wearer. Three varieties were devised for those who were abjuring a heresy of which they had incurred suspicion: the suspect of the degree _leviter_ wore a perfectly plain _sanbenito_ without any cross or other device; the suspect _vehementer_ wore upon back and breast one arm only of the St. Andrew’s cross; the suspect _violenter_ was made to wear the full cross.