biography
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Campion, Edmund, St
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| (1540–81)
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| biography:
| The first of the English Jesuit martyrs, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and although made a deacon in the Church of England (1569) he leaned towards Roman Catholicism. Fearing arrest, he escaped to Douai, and in 1573 joined the Jesuits in Bohemia. In 1580 he was recalled from Prague, where he was professor of rhetoric, for a Jesuit mission to England. He circulated his Decem rationes (Ten Reasons) against Anglicanism in 1581, and was arrested, tortured, tried on a charge of conspiracy, and hanged in London. He was beatified in 1886, and canonized in 1970; feast day 1 December. |
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