Blessed Edmund Campion

Blessed Edmund Campion

This little book leans much, as every modern work on the subject must do, upon Mr. Richard Simpsons monograph: Edmund Campion, Jesuit Protomartyr of England. In many points supplementing or contradicting that splendid though biased narrative, the present writer has gratefully taken advantage of the researches of the Rev. John Hungerford Pollen, S.J. It may also be useful to state that the contemporary citations, when not otherwise specified, are from two invaluable witnesses, Parsons and Allen. The translated passages have been compared with the originals, and sometimes newly rendered. THE Campion family seem to have been both gentlefolk and yeomen, and to have been widely scattered over the land: in Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Essex, Sussex, and Devon. Nothing is definitely known, at present, as to which branch of the Campion family the Blessed Edmund belonged. Unlike many of the martyrs of Tudor and Stuart times, he was what is called a born Catholic: in more accurate phrase, a born heathen, as we all are! but baptized in his parents religion soon after his birth in London, on the Feast of St. Paul the Apostle, January 25, in the year 1540, New Style. Edmund had two brothers, and a[2] sister, none of whom played any great part in his after life. By the time he entered the Society of Jesus his father and mother were both dead: his written expression is that he had hopes they died in full communion with the Church; but evidently he did not know, being abroad, how it had fared with them in those terribly stormy days for Christian souls. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 52731
Author: Guiney, Louise Imogen
Release Date: Aug 5, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Durden, James, 1878-1964 , Smart, John