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San Edmundo Campion (en inglés: Edmund Campion) (Londres, 24 de enero de 1540 – Tyburn, 1 de diciembre de 1581) fue un sacerdote católico, jesuita, mártir santificado siendo uno de los Cuarenta mártires de Inglaterra y Gales.
San. Death: 12/01/1581. Nationality (place of birth): Inglaterra. El más famoso de los mártires ingleses, Edmundo Campion (1540-1581) renunció a una prometedora carrera en Oxford y a una invitación de entrar al servicio de la reina Isabel, para hacerse sacerdote católico y servir as los católicos, que estaban muy abandonados y con grandes ...
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.
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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 is regarded as patron of the British Jesuit Province and his feast day is marked in Jesuit communities, parishes and schools. On 1st December we celebrate the ten saints and eighteen beati, martyrs of the British Province.
