Happy St. Edmund Day.

Today we celebrate St. Edmund Campion who died on 1st December 1581. An English Jesuit, martyred by the government of Queen Elizabeth I.

He was a son of a Catholic bookseller named Edmund whose family converted to Anglicanism. Queen Elizabeth offered him a deaconate in the Church of England. He declined the offer, fled to the continent, and joined the Jesuits and ordained in 1578.

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