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Fra Dolcino and Margaret were never tried by the Church.

According to Manly Hall, Dolcino and his wife were pursued and captured by the Inquisition, then castrated and torn to pieces, limb by limb, the pieces afterward burned by the public executioner.

Fifteen years later ( in 1322 ), approximately thirty of Dolcino's disciples were burned alive in the marketplace at Padua.

After his capture the Bishop of Vercelli consulted with the Inquisition and other eminent people to decide an immediate execution ( in fact the acts of the trial were never found, despite some suggestions that they could be hidden somewhere in the secret archives of the Vatican ) so the paper of the Anonymous Synchronous, probably written by a follower or a local symphatizer of the Dulcinian, the one of Bernardo Gui and another anonymous paper ( probably also written by Bernardo Gui ) are the only documents we have that were written in the same period the facts took place.