I like the Jesuits, and I love reading but …

…I think I’ll take a pass on this particular tome. If the title don’t put you off “A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings Against the Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet a Jesuit and His Confederates” (subtitles anyone?) … …how about thisâÂ?¦ The book is believed to be bound with the skin of […]

…I think I’ll take a pass on this particular tome.

If the title don’t put you off “A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings Against the Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet a Jesuit and His Confederates” (subtitles anyone?) …

…how about thisâÂ?¦


The book is believed to be bound with the skin of the later Father Henry Garnet.

The priest, at the time the head of the Jesuits in England, was executed May 3, 1606, outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in London for his alleged role in a Catholic plot to detonate 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the British Parliament (aka the Gunpowder Plot), an act that would have killed the Protestant King James I and other government leaders.

Break out your checkbooks America, the book is due to be auctioned off Dec. 2.

Sid Wilkinson, the auctioneer, said: “The front cover is rather spooky because where the skin has mottled or crinkled there looks to be a bearded face.”

In other words, it’s a great coffee-table book. I think I’ll wait for the leather-bound edition of “My Life With the Saints.”

If ever there was a need for pictures. Alas, Catholic News Service didn’t post any with the article.

Update: the London Telegraph has photos.

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