Black Saturday was a particularly dark, stormy Saturday in Scotland, on 4 August 1621. Many regarded the foul weather as a judgment of
Heaven
Heaven or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. According to the belie ...
against the
Five Articles of Perth
The Five Articles of Perth was an attempt by King James VI of Scotland to impose practices on the Church of Scotland in an attempt to integrate it with those of the Church of England. This move was unpopular with those Scots who held Reformed vi ...
then passed in the
Scots Parliament tending to establish
Episcopacy.
Many suicides were recorded on this day, as some saw the foul weather as a preparatory for
Armageddon.
''A Short History of Scotland''
Andrew Lang
See also
* Divine retribution
Divine retribution is supernatural punishment of a person, a group of people, or everyone by a deity in response to some action. Many cultures have a story about how a deity exacted punishment upon previous inhabitants of their land, causing th ...
* Five Articles of Perth
The Five Articles of Perth was an attempt by King James VI of Scotland to impose practices on the Church of Scotland in an attempt to integrate it with those of the Church of England. This move was unpopular with those Scots who held Reformed vi ...
Sources and notes
1621 in Scotland
History of the Church of Scotland
Parliament of Scotland
1621 in politics
Apocalypticism
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1621 in Christianity
Scottish mythology
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Suicides in Scotland
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