Musketman Shakespeare (so Google has him on file) is the Roman Catholic secret agent who masterminded the Gunpowder Plot. He has been the darling of social media since a blog was set up for him in 2017. Within the first three years of its creation, the blog was visited over 25,000 times.

The musketman is well-liked on Facebook and Instagram. On Twitter, he is followed by a swarm of admirers, a good number of whom work for the Vatican. And he has thousands of connections on LinkedIn — Pope Francis and other prominent religious leaders among them.