{"id":2111,"date":"2015-12-01T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2025-09-28T05:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:07:55","slug":"big-jesuit-feastday-today-st-edmund-campion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"Big Jesuit feastday today; St. Edmund Campion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Edmund<\/a><\/p>\n

Martyred on December 1st, 1581. Hung, drawn and quartered, as well as having his “privy parts” cut off. Nasty …<\/p>\n

Here’s some stuff about him.<\/p>\n

Ignatianspirituality.com – Edmund Campion<\/a><\/p>\n

Edmund Campion could have been the brightest star in Elizabethan England. He impressed Elizabeth with his welcoming oration when she visited Oxford University in 1569. Under her promised patronage his path to power and prestige was assured. Campion first thought to follow that path, being ordained originally as an Anglican deacon. But his heart was rooted in the Catholic faith. In 1571 Campion traveled to Douai, France, to study in the Catholic seminary. Several years later he walked to Rome, where he was accepted by the Jesuits. The next years Campion taught in Vienna and Prague.<\/p>\n

Campion could have stayed safely in Prague, but he heard the call to minister to Catholics in England. He could only do this traveling in disguise, celebrating the sacraments in secret, and avoiding the many spies who sought him out. But Campion did not keep his mission a secret. He wrote and circulated the Challenge to the Privy Council to debate him on all issues between Protestants and Catholics. His mission began in 1580 but soon ended with his arrest in 1581.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Campion was convicted of treason, suffered the dislocation of his bones on the rack, and still held his own in debates against his persecutors. Showing her esteem for his person, Elizabeth I met him, trying to draw him back into the Church of England. Campion remained steadfast in his Catholic faith. Finally, Campion was hanged, drawn, and quartered on December 1, 1581<\/p>\n

Here is a link to what was called by his enemies “Campion’s Brag”, but which he called his “Challenge to the Privy Council”.<\/p>\n

Enemies of Edmund Campion (1540-1581) disparagingly referred to his apologia as “Campion’s Brag,” the title by which his “Challenge to the Privy Council” is most commonly known today. It is perhaps the earliest defense of the faith to appear in English during the Reformation.<\/a><\/p>\n

And lastly, off wikipedia – the trial and his end.<\/p>\n

<\/a>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmund_Campion#Imprisonment.2C_torture_and_disputations<\/a><\/p>\n

Imprisoned for four days in the Tower of London<\/a> in a tiny cell called “Little-ease”,[15]<\/a><\/sup> Campion was then taken out and questioned by three Privy Councillors\u2014Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas Bromley<\/a>, Vice-Chamberlain of the Royal Household Sir Christopher Hatton<\/a> and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester<\/a>\u2014on matters including whether he acknowledged Queen Elizabeth<\/a> to be the true Queen of England. He replied that he did, and was offered his freedom, wealth and honours, including a possibility of the Archbishopric of Canterbury,[2]<\/a><\/sup>:pp.32\u201333<\/sup>[16]<\/a><\/sup> which he could not accept in good conscience.[17]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Campion was imprisoned in the Tower more than four months and tortured on the rack<\/a> two[2]<\/a><\/sup>:p.33<\/sup> or three times.[18]<\/a><\/sup> False reports of a retraction and of a confession by Campion were circulated.[19]<\/a><\/sup> He had four public disputations with his Anglican adversaries, on 1, 18, 23 and 27 September 1581, at which they attempted to address the challenges of Campion’s Brag<\/em> and Decem Rationes<\/em>. Although still suffering from the effects of his torture, and allowed neither time nor books for preparation, he reportedly conducted himself so easily and readily that “even the spectators in the court looked for an acquittal”.[2]<\/a><\/sup>:p.33<\/sup><\/p>\n

He was arraigned and indicted on 14 November 1581[20]<\/a><\/sup> with several others at Westminster<\/a> on a charge of having conspired, in Rome and Reims<\/a>, to raise a sedition in the realm and dethrone the Queen.[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The trial was held on 20 November 1581. After hearing the pleadings for three hours, the jury deliberated an hour before delivering its verdict:[21]<\/a><\/sup> Campion and his fellow defendants were found guilty of treason. He answered the verdict: “In condemning us, you condemn all your own ancestors, all our ancient bishops and kings, all that was once the glory of England \u2014 the island of saints, and the most devoted child of the See of Peter.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Lord Chief Justice Wray<\/a> read the sentence: “You must go to the place from whence you came, there to remain until ye shall be drawn through the open city of London upon hurdles<\/a> to the place of execution, and there be hanged and let down alive, and your privy parts<\/a> cut off, and your entrails taken out and burnt in your sight; then your heads to be cut off and your bodies divided into four parts, to be disposed of at Her Majesty\u2019s pleasure. And God have mercy on your souls. .”[22]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

On hearing the death sentence, Campion and the other condemned men broke into the words of the Te Deum<\/a><\/em>. After spending his last days in prayer he was dragged with two fellow priests, Fathers Ralph Sherwin<\/a> and Alexander Briant<\/a>, to Tyburn<\/a> where the three were hanged, drawn and quartered<\/a> on 1 December 1581. Campion was 41 years of age.<\/p>\n

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Edmund Campion could have been the brightest star in Elizabethan England. He impressed Elizabeth with his welcoming oration when she visited Oxford University in 1569. Under her promised patronage his path to power and prestige was assured. Campion first thought to follow that path, being ordained originally as an Anglican deacon. But his heart was rooted in the Catholic faith. In 1571 Campion traveled to Douai, France, to study in the Catholic seminary. Several years later he walked to Rome, where he was accepted by the Jesuits. The next years Campion taught in Vienna and Prague.<\/p>\n

Campion could have stayed safely in Prague, but he heard the call to minister to Catholics in England. He could only do this traveling in disguise, celebrating the sacraments in secret, and avoiding the many spies who sought him out. But Campion did not keep his mission a secret. He wrote and circulated the Challenge to the Privy Council to debate him on all issues between Protestants and Catholics. His mission began in 1580 but soon ended with his arrest in 1581.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Campion was convicted of treason, suffered the dislocation of his bones on the rack, and still held his own in debates against his persecutors. Showing her esteem for his person, Elizabeth I met him, trying to draw him back into the Church of England. Campion remained steadfast in his Catholic faith. Finally, Campion was hanged, drawn, and quartered on December 1, 1581.<\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/www.ignatianspirituality.com\/ignatian-voices\/16th-and-17th-century-ignatian-voices\/st-edmund-campion-sj#sthash.kxfRryWP.dpuf<\/p><\/div>\n

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Edmund Campion could have been the brightest star in Elizabethan England. He impressed Elizabeth with his welcoming oration when she visited Oxford University in 1569. Under her promised patronage his path to power and prestige was assured. Campion first thought to follow that path, being ordained originally as an Anglican deacon. But his heart was rooted in the Catholic faith. In 1571 Campion traveled to Douai, France, to study in the Catholic seminary. Several years later he walked to Rome, where he was accepted by the Jesuits. The next years Campion taught in Vienna and Prague.<\/p>\n

Campion could have stayed safely in Prague, but he heard the call to minister to Catholics in England. He could only do this traveling in disguise, celebrating the sacraments in secret, and avoiding the many spies who sought him out. But Campion did not keep his mission a secret. He wrote and circulated the Challenge to the Privy Council to debate him on all issues between Protestants and Catholics. His mission began in 1580 but soon ended with his arrest in 1581.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Campion was convicted of treason, suffered the dislocation of his bones on the rack, and still held his own in debates against his persecutors. Showing her esteem for his person, Elizabeth I met him, trying to draw him back into the Church of England. Campion remained steadfast in his Catholic faith. Finally, Campion was hanged, drawn, and quartered on December 1, 1581.<\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/www.ignatianspirituality.com\/ignatian-voices\/16th-and-17th-century-ignatian-voices\/st-edmund-campion-sj#sthash.kxfRryWP.dpuf<\/p><\/div>\n

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Edmund Campion could have been the brightest star in Elizabethan England. He impressed Elizabeth with his welcoming oration when she visited Oxford University in 1569. Under her promised patronage his path to power and prestige was assured. Campion first thought to follow that path, being ordained originally as an Anglican deacon. But his heart was rooted in the Catholic faith. In 1571 Campion traveled to Douai, France, to study in the Catholic seminary. Several years later he walked to Rome, where he was accepted by the Jesuits. The next years Campion taught in Vienna and Prague.<\/p>\n

Campion could have stayed safely in Prague, but he heard the call to minister to Catholics in England. He could only do this traveling in disguise, celebrating the sacraments in secret, and avoiding the many spies who sought him out. But Campion did not keep his mission a secret. He wrote and circulated the Challenge to the Privy Council to debate him on all issues between Protestants and Catholics. His mission began in 1580 but soon ended with his arrest in 1581.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Campion was convicted of treason, suffered the dislocation of his bones on the rack, and still held his own in debates against his persecutors. Showing her esteem for his person, Elizabeth I met him, trying to draw him back into the Church of England. Campion remained steadfast in his Catholic faith. Finally, Campion was hanged, drawn, and quartered on December 1, 1581.<\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/www.ignatianspirituality.com\/ignatian-voices\/16th-and-17th-century-ignatian-voices\/st-edmund-campion-sj#sthash.kxfRryWP.dpuf<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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