 Their ruthless destruction only goes on to prove how extraordinary their endeavour was.The main source of information about the society is practically only that of the annals of the Inquisition.This not only means that the records are extremely difficult to research (if not by a thorough expert in the field) but also taken with a pinch of salt, since the objective of the archives is not to show its victims favourably or in their true light but, on the contrary, to heap upon them shame and dishonour.