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St. Edmund Campion
Saint Edmund Campion, S.J. (24 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Jesuit priest. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Protestant England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Father Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. His feast is celebrated on 1 December.
Read more about Edmund Campion: Early Years and Education (1540–1569), Rejecting Anglicanism, Imprisonment, Torture and Disputations, Trial, Sentence and Execution, Veneration and Feast Day
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