Garnet granatum" or even "pomum granatum" ('pomegranate', "Punica granatum"), a plant whose fruits contain abundant and vivid red seed covers (arils), which are similar in shape, size, and color to some garnet crystals. Garnet species are found in many colors including red, orange, yellow, green, purple, brown, blue, black, pink, and colorless, with reddish shades most common. Garnet species' light transmission properties can range from the gemstone-quality transparent specimens to the opaque varieties used for industrial purposes as abrasives. The mineral's luster is categorized as vitreous (glass-like) or resinous (amber-like). Garnets are nesosilicates having the general formula "X""Y"(SiO). The "X" site
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