Garnet as gemstones. The gemstone varieties occur in shades of green, red, yellow, and orange. In the US it is known as the birthstone for January. It is the state mineral of Connecticut, New York's gemstone, and star garnet (garnet with rutile asterisms) is the state gemstone of Idaho. Garnet sand is a good abrasive, and a common replacement for silica sand in sand blasting. Alluvial garnet grains which are rounder are more suitable for such blasting treatments. Mixed with very high pressure water, garnet is used to cut steel and other materials in water jets. For water jet cutting, garnet
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