Remember, Remember the 5th of November

Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

You know me, any reason to have a party! Today is also known as Bonfire Night and enormous bonfires are lit all over the country and after a few pints the bonfires are not the only things "lit up"

The story goes as follows:

Wikimedia CommonsGuy Fawkes was tortured and later hanged for trying to blow up the British Parliament the day it was slated to open, November 5, 1605.On November 5, 1605, England held a celebration for the opening of Parliament. Guy Fawkes tried to spark a revolution by blowing up the building – and the royal family along with it.

The plot was foiled when one of Fawkes's co-conspirators sent a letter to a friend telling the friend to stay away from Parliament that night. The letter was intercepted and Fawkes was found in the basement of Parliament getting ready to light the fuse on several dozen barrels of gunpowder.

He was tortured for a list of his co-conspirators, and was hanged in January of 1606.

Fawkes was born a Protestant but converted to Catholicism at a time when Catholics were persecuted in England. He hoped to incite the country to revolution in an attempt to gain equal (or better) recognition for Catholics