1. Edmund Campion, SJ was an English Jesuit priest and martyr.
20 Facts About Edmund Campion
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Edmund Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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Edmund Campion took a master's degree at Oxford in 1564.
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Two years later, Edmund Campion welcomed Queen Elizabeth to the university, and won her lasting regard.
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Edmund Campion was selected to lead a public debate in front of the Queen.
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When Sir Thomas White, the founder of the college, was buried in 1567, it fell to Edmund Campion to give the Latin oration.
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Edmund Campion went to Ireland with his university friend, Richard Stanihurst, where he was the guest of Richard and his father, James Stanihurst, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.
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Edmund Campion entered the English College founded by William Allen.
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Edmund Campion received minor orders after this and was ordained sub-deacon.
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Edmund Campion then travelled to Rome on foot, alone and in the guise of a pilgrim, to join the Jesuits.
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Edmund Campion was assigned to the Austrian Province as there was not yet an English province of the Jesuits and began his two-year novitiate at Brunn in Moravia.
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For six years, Edmund Campion taught at the Jesuit college in Prague as professor of both rhetoric and philosophy.
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Edmund Campion had been surprised to learn that he was chosen to take part in the mission, and expressed the fear that he lacked constitutional courage.
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Pounde rode in haste after Edmund Campion and explained the need for Edmund Campion to write a brief declaration of the true causes of his coming.
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The diffusion of this declaration, known as the Challenge to the Privy Council, or, Edmund Campion's Brag, made his position more difficult.
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Edmund Campion led a hunted life, administering the sacraments and preaching to Catholics in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, and Lancashire.
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Edmund Campion replied that he did, and was offered his freedom, wealth and honours, including the Archbishopric of Canterbury, which he could not accept in good conscience.
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Edmund Campion was imprisoned in the Tower more than four months and tortured on the rack two or three times.
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Edmund Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII on 9 December 1886.
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Edmund Campion was canonised nearly eighty-four years later in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.