I think you may have Bloody Mary (Queen Mary of England, “Mary Windsor”) mixed up with Mary, Queen of Scotts. Queen Mary was Elizabeth I’s older sister, eldest daughter of Henry VIII. She was Catholic and did want the Catholic religion re-instated. Her nickname was Bloody Mary. Mary, Queen of Scots was a Tudor, a cousin of Henry VIII and his daughters Mary and Elizabeth (first cousin, once removed from Mary, Elizabeth, and their younger brother). Mary Tudor, Queen of Scots, was also Catholic, so it is easy to get her mixed up with Queen Mary of England. During Elizabeth I’s reign there were many who wanted Mary Tudor, Queen of Scots, put on the English throne. They felt she was the rightful heir. Elizabeth I had her imprisoned, and eventually she was beheaded, along with others who were plotting to put someone from the House of Tudor on the throne.
What country are you in? I don’t know of any where we haven’t now resumed our in-person, house-to-house ministry. But we also do what we call “cart Witnessing” and that would be the open stands that you mention. We’ve been doing that for many years now.
We do still come around. Only during the first year and a half or so of the pandemic did we not go door-to-door. During the pandemic, we still conducted Bible studies via phone or Zoom, had all of our meetings all around the world via Zoom, and wrote letters and made phone calls. Following Jesus instructions to preach about God’s kingdom is still vital; now more than ever really.
No, we did that even before the pandemic. And we have been back to in-person Witnessing, door-to-door, since 2022. During the pandemic we wrote letters and made phone calls. We never stopped. We don’t usually leave literature in doors anymore, though, unless it’s a special event coming up, or we may leave a contact card directing the householder to our web site, JW.org.
My dad was a Gunner’s Mate 1st Class on the USS Tappahannock (AO-43), a fleet oiler service vessel, for two years during WWII, refueling tankers in the Pacific Theater; she also rescued sailors several times from destroyers that sank. During Dad’s service, the oiler took fire from Japanese “Vals” a few times, mostly just nuisance raids, but on April 7, 1943, after escorting two destroyers through the Lunga Cannel, the Tappahannock was targeted by a formation of seven “Vals,” trying their best to sink the oiler. One of the destroyers The Tappahannock was escorting shot down one of the Japanese crafts, and the Gunners aboard the Tappahannock downed two others. One of the dive bombers, unbelievably, seemed to walk directly into the fire of the gunners in the stern, right down the tracer trajectory. My father said that they could clearly see the pilot’s facial features as he went down. The whole thing only lasted about five minutes, and it was touch and go for most of those minutes for The Tappahannock. The Tappahannock was in US Naval service during the Korean and Viet Nam conflicts as well. It was one of the longest-serving Naval vessels when it was decommissioned in, I think, 1987.
I once used Algebra to explain to my sister what a double negative in English is.