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Jan 24, 1540 London Died on 01 Dec 1581 (aged 41)
English Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
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About Edmund Campion
- Saint Edmund Campion, S.J., (24 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Catholic 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.
- Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised in 1970 by Saint Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
- His feast is celebrated on 1 December.
