Posted on 06/20/2024 6:27:08 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Five Jesuits were hanged at Tyburn on this date in 1679, in the largest single mass execution of England’s “Popish Plot” hysteria.
During this 1678-1681 outbreak of anti-Catholic paranoia, according to the French priest Claude La Colombiere, “the name of the Jesuit [became] hated above all else, even by priests both secular and regular, and by the Catholic laity as well, because it is said that the Jesuits have caused this raging storm, which is likely to overthrow the whole Catholic religion.”
This clique of course had a long tradition on the Isles of positioning as treasonable foreign agents dating to the Elizabethan age.
The five Jesuits of concern to us today, Thomas White aka Thomas Whitebread, John Fenwick, William Harcourt aka William Harrison, John Gavan, and Anthony Turner, were accused by Popish Plot confabulator Titus Oates of having “consulted together and agreed to put the said Lord the King [i.e., the reigning king, Charles II] to death and final destruction, and to change the lawful established religion of this kingdom to the superstition of the Roman Church.”....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
I learned a new word: confabulation.
Among our weapons is an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope!
Also fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency.
All right let’s start again.....Among our weapons are...
Fetch...the comfy chair!
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