Edmund Campion
English Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
Died when: 41 years 311 days (502 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
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. Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
His feast day is celebrated on 1 December.
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