Bonfire Night
Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5, it commemorates the failure of the British conspirator. He was born in 1570 and was involved in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The scheme’s objective was to blow up Westminster during the opening of Parliament, with King James I and VI, and his chief ministers inside, for the revenge of the treatment and misery of Roman Catholics in England. Catholicism became extremely repressed after Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated, in 1570, by the Pope. During her reign as monarch, numerous priests were put to death and it was not legal for Catholics to attend Mass or participate in the holy sacrament of marriage as a rite.
