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May 4, 2017 · Kilroy’s case is that Campion, a major scholar, immensely popular with friends and followers and a man of exceptional integrity, was butchered in his prime by a brutal regime terrified by the failure of the Jesuit campaign in Ireland which threatened the stability of Elizabeth’s Protestant state. Campion, who was only ever interested in ...
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Oct 28, 2022 · Edmund Campion SJ was a Jesuit and martyr, eminent scholar, and orator who worked as lecturer of Rhetoric in Oxford and professor of Rhetoric and Philosophy in the Clementinum in Prague. Deeply admired by his contemporaries as an eloquent and elegant orator, he is best remembered for his powerful sermons, which he delivered to crowds in many parts of England and Bohemia.
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Edmund Campion was born in London, on January 25, 1540, into a Catholic merchant family. He had two brothers and one sister. His father, also named Edmund, was a bookseller. From a very early age, young Campion showed exceptional intelligence, and an organization of merchants in the city arranged for him to attend a grammar school and to study at C...
The university welcomed the queen with many days of speeches and ceremonies. Since Campion's college at Oxford, St. John's, was known as a place that was still predominantly Catholic, Cecil ordered that professors giving speeches to the queen should choose nonreligious subjects so that the visit would not be spoiled by controversy. Campion was assi...
Campion made his way to the town of Douai, in northern France, where William Allen (1532–1594; see entry) had established a Catholic seminary for English students. (A seminary is a school similar to a university that trains students in religion, usually to prepare them to become members of the clergy.) This seminary preserved Catholic teachings and...
English Catholics were overjoyed at Campion's return, and many prominent Catholic families helped give him shelter while he traveled through the countryside saying Mass, hearing confessions, and preaching. At the suggestion of friends who worried that he and Persons would be captured and killed without having a chance to defend themselves, Campion ...
Cecil and Dudley ordered Campion to be tortured on the rack. He was tied by his wrists and ankles to a frame that was then stretched until his limbs were dislocated. In intense pain, Campion blurted out the names of a few people who had sheltered him. But he did not disclose any information that could implicate them in any deliberate plot against t...
During the eleven days he lay chained in his Tower cell between his trial and his day of execution, Campion rejected one last chance, brought to him by his sister, to reject Catholicism and thus spare his life. He spent his last days in fasting and prayer. Finally on December 1,1581, he and two fellow prisoners were driven through the muddy streets...
BOOKS
Hogge, Alice. God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Waugh, Evelyn. Edmund Campion. Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1946; reprinted, 1956.
WEB SITES
Brennan, Malcolm. "English Martyrs: Saint Cuthbert Mayne." The Angelus. http://www.sspx.ca/Angelus/1978_July/Saint_Cuthbert_Mayne.htm(accessed on July 11, 2006). "Edmund Campion." Catholic Encyclopedia. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05293c.htm(accessed on July 11, 2006). "Edmund Campion." Tudor Place. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/EdmundCampion.htm(accessed on July 11, 2006). "Forty Martyrs of England and Wales." http://www.catholic-forum.com/Saints/martyr02.htm (accessed on July 11, 20...
Jan 16, 2022 · Edmund Campion, the son of a bookseller, became a leading scholar of his time, respected by many for his intelligence, his kindness, and his choice of a dangerous career in an era when, had he chosen a more diplomatic, or academic field of endevour, it is likely that he would have become one of the great minds of the English Renaissance.
Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life is the response, at long last, to Evelyn Waugh’s call, in 1935, for a ’scholarly biography’ to replace Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion (1867). Whereas early accounts of his life focused on the execution of the Jesuit priest, this new biography presents a more balanced assessment, placing equal weight on Campion’s London upbringing among printers and ...
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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. Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised ...
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A distinguished scholar and tutor, he befriended a young undergraduate, Richard Stanihurst (qv), and accompanied him on his return to Dublin in August 1570. In Dublin, Campion stayed in the house of Richard's father, James Stanyhurst (qv), speaker of the Irish house of commons. He probably hoped to pursue a career as a teacher or academic in ...
