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Offline Viva Cristo Rey

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Who is Guy Fawkes?
« on: October 27, 2020, 12:49:46 PM »
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    • What is the history?  And Q?

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    Offline alaric

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    Re: Who is Guy Fawkes?
    « Reply #1 on: October 27, 2020, 04:30:19 PM »
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    • Isn't he the guy who tried to blow up the parliament bldg in England a long time ago and they burn him in effigy there  every year since?
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    Re: Who is Guy Fawkes?
    « Reply #2 on: October 27, 2020, 05:43:43 PM »
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    • No GP was ever found under Parliament-- Guido didn't try & blow up anything. Catholic faction was in Parliament also that day. They would have been killed as well. :fryingpan:
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    Re: Who is Guy Fawkes?
    « Reply #3 on: October 27, 2020, 09:12:56 PM »
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    • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guy-Fawkes

    Guy Fawkes, (born 1570, York, England—died January 31, 1606, London), British soldier and best-known participant in the Gunpowder Plot. Its object was to blow up the palace at Westminster during the state opening of Parliament, while James I and his chief ministers met within, in reprisal for increasing oppression of Roman Catholics in England.

    Gunpowder Plot, the conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I, his queen, and his eldest son on November 5, 1605. The leader of the plot, Robert Catesby, together with his four coconspirators—Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Guy Fawkes—were zealous Roman Catholics angered by James’s refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. They apparently hoped that the confusion that would follow the murder of the king, his ministers, and the members of Parliament would provide an opportunity for the English Catholics to take over the country.

    Incidentally Sir Thomas Percy was a martyr and the son of a martyr. Beatified by Leo XIII. His daughter Mary founded the Brussels Benedictine convent, from which the Benedictines houses in England are descended.

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    Re: Who is Guy Fawkes?
    « Reply #4 on: October 29, 2020, 08:20:07 AM »
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