 |
| illustration of Guy Fawkes,1840 |
If you want to protest, like people are doing in
Wall Street, and now hrere in
Brazil too, take here your
Guy Falkes Mask.
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as
Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the
Spanish in the
Low Countries, belonged to a group of provincial
English Catholics who planned the failed
Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Fawkes was born and educated in
York. His father died when
Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant
Catholic.
Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the
Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic
Spain against Protestant
Dutch reformers. He travelled to
Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in
England but was unsuccessful. He later met
Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to
England. Wintour introduced
Fawkes to
Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate
King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and
Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched
Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found
Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on
31 January,
Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the drawing and quartering that followed.
Fawkes became synonymous with the
Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in
England since
5 November 1605. His effigy is often burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display. -
Wikipedia
Se você quer protestar, como estão fazendo em
Wall Street, e agora aqui no
Brasil também, pegue aqui sua máscara de
Guy Falkes.
Guy Fawkes (Iorque, 13 de abril de 1570 — Londres, 31 de janeiro de 1606), também conhecido como
Guido Fawkes, foi um soldado
inglês católico que teve participação na
"Conspiração da Pólvora" (Gunpowder Plot) na qual se pretendia assassinar o rei protestante
Jaime I da Inglaterra e todos os membros do parlamento durante uma sessão em
1605, objetivando o início de um levante católico.
Guy Fawkes era o responsável por guardar os barris de pólvora que seriam utilizados para explodir o
Parlamento do Reino Unido durante a sessão. Porém a conspiração foi desarmada e após o seu interrogatório e tortura,
Guy Fawkes foi executado na forca por traição e tentativa de assassinato. Outros participantes da conspiração acabaram tendo o mesmo destino. Sua captura é celebrada até os dias atuais no dia
5 de novembro, na
"Noite das Fogueiras" (Bonfire Night). Guy Fawkes nasceu na cidade de
Iorque, e se converteu ao Catolicismo aos dezesseis anos. Como soldado era especialista em explosivos. Por ser simpatizante dos espanhóis católicos, adotou também a versão espanhola de seu nome francês:
Guido. -
Wikipedia
Link: Guy.Falkes.Mask.by.Mckackr
More One Mask related post:
Tutankamon`s Death Mask - by Papermau - Máscara de Tutankamon
