Carbuncle (gemstone) Carbuncle (gemstone) A carbuncle is any red gemstone, most often a red garnet. The word occurs in four places in many English translations of the Bible. The English King James translation is a rendering of the Hebrew Masoretic text (Old Testament) and Greek Textus Receptus (New Testament). "Carbunculus" is a word used in Latin for a small coal (or charcoal), and also for any of a number of precious or semi-precious stones, especially those of a red color.; Jerome apparently chose the term because of its similarity in meaning to the Septuagint's ἄνθραξ ("anthrax" meaning "coal"), which was in turn
Henry Garnet of [[John and Christopher Wright|John Wright]]. In November he was with [[Anne Vaux]] (whose family he had been introduced to in summer 1586) at White Webbs near Enfield, renewing the vows given on the [[Presentation of Mary|Feast of the Presentation of Our Lady]]. On 9 June 1605, he was to be found in a room on Thames Street in London, with [[Robert Catesby]]. In the midst of what Garnet later recalled was a seemingly casual conversation, Catesby asked the priest about the morality of "killing innocents". Garnet replied according to Catholic theology, that often, during war, innocents were killed alongside