St. Edmund Campion
English Jesuit priest and martyr (1540-1581), Oxford scholar who fled to the Continent and joined the Society of Jesus. Returned secretly to Elizabethan England, wrote the apologetic "Brag" and "Decem Rationes"; arrested, tortured on the rack, and hanged at Tyburn. Among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, canonized 1970 by Paul VI.
Life & Times
Born: 1540 · Died: 1581 · From: England.
Patronage
St. Edmund Campion is invoked as the patron of england, converts, jesuits, martyrs. Those in these callings or circumstances often turn to this saint in prayer.
“It was not our death that ever we feared. We knew that we were not lords of our own lives.”— Speech at his trial for treason, November 1581
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About Catholic Saints
Catholic saints, including St. Edmund Campion, are Christians whom the Catholic Church has formally recognized as having lived lifes of heroic holiness and who now dwell with God in heaven, offering an example of faith for those still on their earthly journey. Catholics don't worship saints, but ask them to pray to God with us and for us — much as one might ask a trusted friend to pray for them — trusting that those closest to God can join their voices to ours before Him. Discover more saints in the Catholic Shop Saints section.