Description:
(English Jesuit Priest Executed for His Complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605)
English Jesuit priest Henry Garnet was initially an Anglican but later converted to Roman Catholicism. After teaching Hebrew at a college in Rome, he went back to England as a missionary. Accused of being involved in the Gunpowder Plot against King James I, he was hanged to death in 1606.
Born In
Heanor, England
Died on
May 3, 1606