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- 1. (1540–81), English Jesuit priest and martyr. He was canonized in 1970. Feast day, 1 December.
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Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
Saint Edmund Campion, English Jesuit martyred by the Protestant government of Queen Elizabeth I. When he refused under severe torture to recant his religious convictions, his captors invented charges that he had conspired to overthrow the queen.
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The most famous of the English martyrs, Edmund Campion (1540-1581) gave up a promising career at Oxford and an invitation to enter Queen Elizabeth's service in order to become a Catholic priest and minister to the abandoned Catholics who greatly desired the sacraments.
Edmund was born in London, the son of a bookseller. He was raised a Catholic, given a scholarship to St. John's College, Oxford, when fifteen, and became a fellow when only seventeen. His brilliance attracted the attention of such leading personages as the Earl of Leicester, Robert Cecil, and even ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Saint Edmund Campion was a Jesuit priest, English martyr, and scholar, executed in 1581 for his Catholic faith, canonized in 1970.
EDMUND CAMPION. English Jesuit and martyr; he was the son and namesake of a Catholic bookseller, and was born in London, 25 Jan., 1540; executed at Tyburn, 1 Dec., 1581. A city company sent the promising child to a grammar school and to Christ Church Hospital.
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Jul 17, 2024 · Edmund Campion was born in London on January 25, 1540. He was raised as a Catholic, and had such a powerful and flamboyant intellect that at the age of only 17, he was made a junior fellow at...
