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Edmund Campion

Born on January 24, 1540

Edmund Campion, English priest and martyr (d. 1581)

Edmund Campion (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. 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. His feast day is celebrated every 1st of December.

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Events on 1540

23 Mar

Henry VIII of England
Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
27 Sep

Pope Paul III
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.