Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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 Christ Church Hospital. His father, also named Edmund, was a bookseller. The church and is believed to be capable of interceding with God to protect people on earth.) Early life and educationĮdmund Campion was born in London, on January 25, 1540, into a Catholic merchant family. "My charge is, of free cost to preach the Gospel, to minister the Sacraments, to instruct the simple, to reforme sinners, to confute errors-in brief, to crie alarme spiritual against foul vice and proud ignorance." (A saint is a deceased person who, due to his or her exceptionally good behavior during life, receives the official blessing of Recognizing him as a martyr, or someone who died for his faith, the Catholic Church made him a saint in 1970. He was imprisoned and tortured before being put to death in 1581. After publishing a pamphlet denouncing the Anglican Church, Campion was arrested as a traitor. ![]() He fled England and became a Jesuit priest, later returning to England to minister to Catholics there who were strictly forbidden to practice their religion. Edmund Campion, a brilliant scholar at Oxford University, abandoned the chance to have a powerful career as an Anglican priest under the protection of Elizabeth I (1533–1603 see entry) because he believed in the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church. ![]()
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