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Jacobean attitudes to Catholicism - Coggle Diagram
Jacobean attitudes to Catholicism
The Gunpowder Plot
This was a failed attempt to blow up King James I and his Parliament on November 5th, 1605.
Organised by Robert Catesby in an attempt to end the persecution of Roman Catholics by the English Government.
They wanted to repace the Protestant Government with Catholic leadership.
On the 4th November, Guy Fawkes was found by Sir Thomas Knyvet in the cellar of the Houses of Parliament with barrels of gunpowder.
Fawkes was tortured which led to him revealing that he was part of an English Catholic conspiracy which planned to annihilate England's Protestant government to replace it with a Catholic one.
Fawkes and the other conspirators were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
This led to new laws being instituted in England that eliminated the right of Catholics to vote, among other repressive restrictions.
Led to a lack of distrust of Catholics.
Caused a greater amount of criticism towards Catholics.
Jesuit infiltration: Calvinism & Puritanism in the 1610s
Calvinism
Unhappiness towards Catholics was made apparent in Parliament - MP's complained about papists, the spread of popery and the slack enforcement of penal laws.
George Abbot was an MP who was an evangelical Calvinist who showed hostility towards Puritans; however, he did agree to the obkection of the presence of papists in the Privy Council.
James I did not share Calvin's views on Church Government.
John Calvin was born in France in 1509: he studied philosophy, law, and humanism and believed that the Catholic Church needed reform.
Puritanism
The name "Puritans" was given around 1560 to a certain group of Calvinist Protestants who wanted further reforms to be carried out within the Church.
They objected to priestly robes as they wanted to purify the Church of anything ornamental.
Wanted a simpler kind of liturgy and refused strict obedience to the 'Prayer Book'.
Welcomed King James I as King.
Puritan theology was a version of a revolution in Switzerland called Calvinism, with James I being far more inclined to Calvinist doctrine than Elizabeth had been.
Believed the Church of England had kept too many Catholic practices, they wanted Church government put into the hands of people rather than the hierarchy of bishops.
Opposed much of the Roman Catholic summation in the Church of England.
Disapproved of use of non-secular vestments, kneeling to receive Holy Communion, and the sign of the Cross in Baptism.
Orazio Busino
In 1618 the Venetian Envoy (Orazio Busino) claimed that the English scoff at our religion as disgusting and merely superstitious; they never put on any public show whatever, be it tragedy or satire or comedy, into which they do not insert some Catholic churchman’s vices and wickednesses, making mock and scorn of him, according to their taste, but to the dismay of good men”.
Busino stated that "all this was acted in condemnation of the grandeur of the Church, which they dispise and which in this kingdom they hate to the death".
Orazio was the Chaplain and private secretary to Pietro Contarini, the Venetian ambassador to England in 1617-18.
His 'Angilpotrida' was a collection of notes written periodically over the course of his stay from October 1617 to November 1618.
Relics of the Saints
A relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past, usually the physical remains of a Saint.
St.John Damascene taught that relics of the saints are gifts from God to the Church, given to us as means of sanctification.
By venerating the relics people are able to honour God.
Saints are members of the same Mystical Bodies.
