Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot - Treason, Torture, Catholics

'Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot' is a short excerpt taken from a half an hour film on the life and mission of Saint Nicholas Owen - a Catholic Elizabethan carpenter who famously dedicated his life to the construction of amazing priest holes and secret rooms etc...for the hunted Catholic English priests in elizabethan and jacobean England. Many of his hiding places have yet to be discovered but those that have been are ingenious - he was a highly sought after man by the anti- Catholic monarchy and government as it was due to him that many priests managed to survive the persecutions in England. His story is linked to the gunpowder plot as he took refuge with Jesuit priests in Hindlip Hall after Guy Fawkes and his reckless fellow young English Catholic friends were snared and captured by the government and a great hunt began for the head of the Jesuits in England, Fr. Henry Garnet, whom Nicholas Owen often travelled with. The jesuits knew the gunpowder plotters, who were young Catholic Englishmen pretty fed up with the anti-Catholic laws in England and the empty promises of the King to change them. Despite warnings from the Jesuits and fellow Catholics the young men went ahead with their plan to blow up parliment and King James I with gunpowder barrels and gunpowder kegs, which, well known to sir Cecil and encouraged by him provided a great opportunity to apply even worse persecution upon the English people. Saint Nicholas Owen was tortured to death in the Tower of London in 1606. The DVD resource on Saint Nicholas Owen includes original portrayals of his life, historical imagery and facts and sacred art it is a great encounter with one of the 40 Martyrs of england and Wales. By Mary's Dowry Productions.

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