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Edmund Campion before Elizabeth I Stained Glass

Tradition has it that Campion was secretly brought before Queen Elizabeth I following his arrest in July 1581. Painted glass window from Campion House College, Osterley; now in the Jesuit Community Chapel at Stonyhurst College. Image © 2012 Jesuit Institute

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St Edmund Campion SJ

Edmund Campion Painting from Campion Hall

Early 18th Century Italian (?) This portrait was recovered from Augsburg Cathedral in 1889. It had probably hung in one of the German Jesuit Colleges until the Supression of the Society in 1773 when libraries and artworks were confiscated. It now hangs at Campion Hall Oxford. Campion Hall Collections - Image © 2011 Jesuit Institute

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St Edmund Campion SJ

Edmund Campion Engraving Antwerp

St Edmund Campion SJ - Engraving Antwerp 1631.

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St Edmund Campion SJ

Engraving of Hurdle from Challoner

The engraving shows a man being drawn on a hurdle to Tyburn for execution. The hurdle was like a sledge; the victim was bound head downwards and dragged through the mud and filth of the streets. Engraving (1830s?) by Mary Byfield from Memoirs of Missionary Priests (1741) by Bishop Richard Challoner. Image © 2011 Jesuit Institute

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St Edmund Campion SJ

Edmund Campion taken prisoner engraving

Campion was betrayed and arrested at Lyford Grange in Oxfordshire on 17th July 1581. On the journey to London and imprisonment in the Tower of London, he was made to wear a sign which read "Campion, the seditious Jesuit" Engraving from a 19th century edition of Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests (1741)

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St Edmund Campion SJ

DecemRationes2

Campion wrote his Ten Reasons (Rationes Decem) to explain why the Catholic faith was the true continuation of the ancient Christian faith and why Protestantism could not claim to be the true faith. This is one of few surviving copies of the Rationes Decem and is at Campion Hall Oxford. Campion Hall Collections - Images © 2011 Jesuit Institute

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St Edmund Campion SJ

London Bridge line drawing author unknown

Note the heads of martyrs on long spiked poles at the entrance to the bridge. This barbarity was to deter others from Catholic activities. Source/author unknown.

St Edmund Campion SJ
Feasts and Seasons
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To love you more dearly Prayer and Liturgy Directory

The Prayer and Liturgy Directory from Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and the Catholic Education Service.

Liturgy in Catholic Schools
Chaplains
Prayers for Schools

The Resurrection of Lazarus Henry Ossawa Tanner Wikimedia

The Raising of Lazarus by Henry Ossawa Tanner (oil on canvas). 1896. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Via Wikimedia Commons.

November and Remembrance
Feasts and Seasons

Campion going to the rack Engraving

Engraving (1830s?) by Mary Byfield from Memoirs of Missionary Priests (1741) by Bishop Richard Challoner. Campion was subjected to violent torture including his limbs being stretched and wrenched on the rack. Before entering the room of his torture, he would kneel to pray. Image © 2011 Jesuit Institute

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