Ireland (1569–1570) Ĭampion went to Ireland with his university friend, Richard Stanihurst, where he was the guest of Richard and his father, James Stanihurst, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.

Joseph's revision of Simpson, 2010) to take part in a proposed establishment of the University of Dublin. Inwardly ' he took a remorse of conscience and detestation of mind.' Rumours of his opinions began to spread and he left Oxford in 1569 and went to Ireland for private study and research, but not, as Simpson said (now corrected by P. Religious difficulties then arose but despite holding Catholic doctrines, at the persuasion of Richard Cheyney, Bishop of Gloucester, he received Holy Orders in 1564 as a deacon in the Anglican Church. When Sir Thomas White, the founder of the college, was buried in 1567, it fell to Campion to give the Latin oration. By the time the Queen had left Oxford, Campion had earned the patronage of the powerful William Cecil and also the Earl of Leicester, tipped by some to be future husband of the young Queen. He was selected to lead a public debate in front of the Queen.

Two years later, Campion welcomed Queen Elizabeth to the university, and won her lasting regard. He took a master's degree at Oxford in 1564. : p30 William Chester, a governor of Christ's Hospital, took a special interest in him, and sponsored him as a scholar to St John's College, Oxford, where he became junior fellow in 1557 and took the required Oath of Supremacy, probably on the occasion of his B.A. He received his early education at Christ's Hospital school and, at the age of 13, was chosen to make the complimentary speech when Queen Mary visited the city in August 1553. His feast day is celebrated on 1 December.Įarly years and education (1540–1569) īorn in London on 25 January 1540, Campion was the son of a bookseller in Paternoster Row, near St Paul's Cathedral. 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. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr.

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