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Arrested, tortured and sentenced to death, Guy Fawkes had the testis and heart ripped out, and ended up beheaded and dismembered the body not only as set forth in the public square to rot and serve as food for the crows. All because he was a Catholic in England (Anglican majority country) and decided to join a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the king, kidnap his daughter and lead a popular uprising.
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It all started when Queen Elizabeth 1st sent eliminate Mary Stuart (the first in line of succession) because she was Catholic. With the death of the sovereign, in 1603, James 1st took over and everyone believed that the situation of non-Anglicans would improve. But the king, bisexual and extravagant, proved a weak and cornered by Puritans, further increased religious persecution.

A group of influential Catholics pitched a plot to kill him. The head of the operation? A soldier and adventurer sought throughout Europe because of duels, robberies and assassinations: Guy Fawkes. The first meeting of the conspirators took place in 1604, the tavern Duck and Drake. The plan was simple: take care of Fawkes put 36 barrels of gunpowder under Parliament, as partners would an uprising in the north of the island and kidnap the princess, to convert her to Catholicism. But there was a rat in the pack and on the evening of November 5, 1605, the date chosen for the attack, the British secret service knew everything.
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It was not the way he imagined, but Fawkes entered history. Exactly one year after the failed attack, hundreds of fires were lit in the streets of London in protest against the king. Later, on November 5 became a national holiday. In the '70s, the anti-hero idol turned punks who pichavam his name on the walls. And in 1982 the writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd created the graphic novel V for Vendetta, whose hero - one masked avenger, victim of genetic experiments - fight against a totalitarian state. Finally, in 2002, a survey by the BBC showed that he was the 30th English character most remembered. Fawkes lives.



Great Moments
? Born in 1570, family and Anglican converts to Catholicism at 18. Dies on January 31, 1606.
? In 1588, he joined the Spanish army against the English and adopts the name Guido Fawkes. Five years later, he enlisted in the army of the Archduke of Austria.
? English Catholics regain the right to vote in 1829 and 5 November saw the Guy Fawkes Day, a national holiday.
? In 1977, Johnny Rotten, frontman Fri Pistols, calls him a forerunner of punk anarchism.
? The movie V for Vendetta, the Matrix producer and inspired the comic by Alan Moore, is scheduled to debut in March in England.