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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Edmund Campion
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(1540–81, beatified 1886, canonized 1970)
The best known of the *Jesuit martyrs in the reign of Elizabeth I. Ordained in the Church of England, he converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Jesuit in Rome during the 1570s. In 1580 he was sent back to England to minister in secret to Roman Catholic congregations. But in 1581 he made a very unsecret gesture of defiance, attending a degree-giving ceremony at Oxford to distribute a pamphlet of his own attacking the Anglican church. Arrested two weeks later he was tortured, accused of conspiring against the queen and executed. His feast day is December 1.
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