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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. He was convicted of treason and executed.
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.
ST. 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.
May 4, 2017 · A biography of the Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion (1540–81) has long been necessary. For supporters and enemies alike, Campion’s trial and the reactions to it did much to establish the nature of confessional conflict in the British Isles well into the seventeenth century.
Campion's Life by Kathryn Reddy. St. Edmund Campion was born in London in 1540, the gifted child of a merchant. He was awarded a grant towards further education and was admitted to St. John's College, Oxford, by its founder Thomas White, where he became an outstanding lecturer in Rhetoric.
Jun 25, 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...
Campion, the star of the show, single-handedly debated four other scholars and so impressed the queen that she promised the patronage of her advisor (and one of the principal architects of the Reformation in England) William Cecil, who referred to Campion as the "diamond of England."
Jan 25, 2017 · One of many Catholics to suffer at the hands of the English government in the wake of Henry VIII’s separation from the Church of Rome, Saint Edmund Campion could have led a privileged life as a renowned scholar but could not follow the newly-founded Anglican faith.
Jan 12, 2022 · Edmund Campion (b. 1540–d. 1581) was born in London and educated there and at Oxford, as a member of the newly founded St John’s College, a pillar of Mary Tudor’s Catholic revival. By the time he graduated Mary had been succeeded by Elizabeth I and Catholicism by an episcopally led form of Protestantism.
