Henry Garnet
Henry Garnet (* 1555 in Heanor , Derbyshire , † May 3, 1606 in London ) was an English Jesuit .
Henry Garnet was born in 1555 in Derbyshire , the son of Brian Garnet, the Masters of Nottingham High School . Garnet attended Winchester College and then studied law in London . Henry Garnet was internally inclined to the Catholic Church, but externally conformed to the Anglican state church . But this changed when he finished his previous life at the age of twenty and joined the Jesuit order in Rome . There Garnet finished his studies under Professor Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino and came into contact with contemporaries such as Robert Parsons and Robert Southwell . With the latter, Henry Garnet was sent on a mission to England in 1586.
After the arrest of William Weston , Garnet succeeded him in 1587 as Superior of the English Jesuits. As a Jesuit superior, he was involved in several church-political conflicts. The best-known dispute was the archpriest's dispute in 1594.
In 1605, when Henry Garnet was making a confession, he learned of the Gunpowder plot . Because he wanted to keep the confessional secret, he was later accused of being an accomplice and convicted of treason. On May 3, 1606, Garnet was finally executed near St Paul's Cathedral .
literature
- Ronny Baier: Garnet, Henry. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 439-444.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Garnet, Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English Jesuit |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1555 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heanor , Derbyshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1606 |
| Place of death | London |