At Westminster in London, Guy Fawkes, a chief conspirator in the plot to blow up the British Parliament building, jumps to his death moments before his execution for treason.
On the eve of a general parliamentary session scheduled for November 5, 1605, Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, found Guy Fawkes lurking in a cellar of the Parliament building. Fawkes was detained and the premises thoroughly searched. Nearly two tons of gunpowder were found hidden within the cellar. In his interrogation, Fawkes revealed that he was a participant in an English Catholic conspiracy organized by Robert Catesby to annihilate England’s entire Protestant government, including King James I. The king was to have attended Parliament on November 5.
Over the next few months, English authorities killed or captured all of the conspirators in the “Gunpowder Plot” but also arrested, tortured, or killed dozens of innocent English Catholics. After a brief trial, Guy Fawkes was sentenced, along with the other surviving chief conspirators, to be hanged, drawn, and quartered in London. On January 30, 1606, the gruesome public executions began in London, and on January 31 Fawkes was called to meet his fate. While climbing to the hanging platform, however, he jumped from the ladder and broke his neck, dying instantly.
In remembrance of the Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated across Great Britain every year on the fifth of November. As dusk falls in the evening, villagers and city dwellers across Britain light bonfires, set off fireworks, and burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes, celebrating his failure to blow up Parliament and James I.
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He gave it his best shot.
I like the fact that he died on his own terms.
Had it coming tho’……
They celebrate a terrorist?
TERRORIST??? NOT LIKE TODAY’S TERRORIST, MORE LIKE A PATRIOT. THE ENGLISH PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT IN THE COUNTRY PROBABLY WISH THERE WAS ANOTHER GUY FAWKES AROUND TO TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE IN LONDON WHO HAVE SOLD THEIR SOULS TO THE EU.
Didn’t read it did ya?His beef was with a form of the Christian religion that was fairly new at the time….violently!!!!
Geez,then down your hearing aid dad!…..
I find it interesting…..why such resistance to Protestantism??
I have a friend who is Orthodox Christian and he asked me “you mean for 1500 years Christians were practicing WRONG?”…
I said”yup,pretty much”
Like I had two heads!……
“where in the Bible does it say”Go worship that guy,and kiss his ring?!?……
So…I asked him”so what does Thou shalt have no other gods before me,actually mean!
Are men not treated like GODS ???
This is what scares me about Trump……
Too many people seem to have many other Gods before them.
Just my humble opinion……
We become so welded to ideas and concepts.
Reading for comprehension? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
/s
He descended from Meanderthoughts.
WE DON’T WORSHIP TRUMP MY FRIEND THAT IS AN MSM AND DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDA LINE OF HORSE SHIT IF EVER WE’VE HEARD ONE. THE LEFT CONSTANTLY WORSHIPS THE LEFTIST DICTATORS OF THE WORLD AND HAVE FOR CENTURIES. STALIN, HITLER, MUSSOLINI, MAO TZETUNG, POL POT, THE KIMS OF NORTH KOREA, FIDEL CASTRO AND HIS HENCHMAN CHE GUEVERA, THE MULLAHS AND ISLAMIC DICTATORS OF THE MIDDLE EAST SAME FOR AFRICA ACCORDING TO THE PROGRESSIVES OF THE WORLD THEY CAN DO NO WRONG THE WEF FALLS INTO THAT CATEGORY. NOBODY WORSHIPPED WASHINGTON OR JEFFERSON OR OUR FOUNDERS, BUT PEOPLE RECOGNISED THAT THEY WERE THE RIGHT MEN FOR THE JOB FOR THOSE TIMES. THE SAME PERTAINS TO TRUMP. HE’S THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE TIMES. IT’S NOT RELIGIOUS WORSHIP MY FREIND IT’S ANGER, FURY AND ENTHUSIASM THAT ARE BEING WITNESSED. AND THE DEMS AND THEIR PROGRESSIVES HANDLERS FEAR THAT ANGER AND FURY.
I JUST BETCHA THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, (THE ONES THAT ARE REAL ENGLISH), WISH THAT ANOTHER GUY FAWKES WAS AVAILABLE TO TAKE OUT THEIR CORRUPT MASTERS IN LONDON RIGHT ABOUT NOW.