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A-Z: General definitions: Guy Fawkes
Definition
One of the group of Catholic conspirators who took part in the failed Gunpowder plot - a plan to assassinate the Protestant King James I in 1605 by blowing up Parliament. An effigy of Fawkes is traditionally burned on bonfires on 5 November each year in the UK.
1. Sometimes used to denote all Christians
2. Used specifically of the Roman Catholic church.
The attempted assassination of James I of England in 1605 by a group of Catholic dissenters in response to increasing persecution
Christians whose faith and practice stems from the Reformation movement in the sixteenth century which resulted in new churches being created as an alternative to the Roman Catholic Church.
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