Edmund Campion

For the Australian priest and historian, see Edmund Campion (historian).

{{Infobox saint |honorific_prefix=Saint |name=Edmund Campion |honorific_suffix=SJ |birth_date=25 January 1540 |death_date=1 December 1581(1581-12-01) (aged 41) |feast_day=1 December (individual with two companions)
4 May (all English Martyrs)
25 October (collectively with Forty Martyrs of England and Wales)
29 October (one of the Douai Martyrs) |venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church |image=Edmundus Campion.jpg</ref> in Lancashire; each year they are placed on the altar of St Peter's Church for Mass to celebrate Campion's feast day—which is always a holiday for the school.

Educational institutions named for Campion

• Campion House, Osterley, London
• Campion Hall, Oxford, England
• The Campion School, Hornchurch, England
• Campion Hall, Seattle, Washington, United States
• Indo Scottish Global School, Kamothe, India
• St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
• St Edmund Campion Catholic School, Erdington, Birmingham, England
• St Edmund Campion RC Primary School, West Bridgford, Nottingham, England
• St Edmund's Catholic Academy, Wolverhampton, England
• Campion Jesuit High School, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, United States
• St. Edmund Campion Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Campion College, Regina, Canada
• St. Edmund Campion Catholic School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• St. Edmund Campion Secondary School, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
• Campion College, Sydney, Australia
• Campion College, Gisborne, New Zealand
• Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
• Campion School, Mumbai, India
• Campion School, Bhopal, India
• Campion School, Kochi, India
• Campion School, Athens, Greece
• Campion College, Kingston, Jamaica
• Ocer Campion Jesuit College, Gulu, Uganda

See also

• John Dolman (Jesuit)
• Robert Persons

References

The most comprehensive and detailed scholarly reference today is Professor Gerard Kilroy's biography: Edmund Campion, A Scholarly Life London & New York: Routledge "Ashgate", 2015. ISBN 978-1-4094-0151-3

Sources

• Bombino, Pietro Paolo (1618). Vita et martyrium Edmundi Campiani e Societate Jesu. Antverpiæ: apud heredes Martini Nutii et Ioannem Meursium.
• Campion, Edmund. A Historie of Ireland, written in the yeare 1571., Dublin, 1633. Facsimile ed., 1940, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1191-9.
• De Backer, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jesus, pp. 98–102. (A complete list of Edmund Campion's works) (in French and Latin), etc.
• Foley, Henry, S.J., Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. Vol. III. London: Burns and Oates (1878).
• Guiney, Louise Imogen, Blessed Edmund Campion, New York: Benziger Brothers (1908)
• Simpson, Richard, Edmund Campion: a Biography, London: Williams and Norgate (1867)
• Simpson, Richard, Edmund Campion, (1867). Revised, edited and enlarged by Peter Joseph, Gracewing/Freedom Press (2010) ISBN 978-0-85244-734-5
• Waugh, Evelyn, Edmund Campion, London: Williams and Norgate (1935). Sophia Institute Press (1996) ISBN 0-918477-44-1
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Edmund Campion". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
• Wood, Anthony, 1632–1695, Athenae Oxonienses, cols 473–478, London, 1813.

External links

• Works by Edmund Campion at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Edmund Campion at the Internet Archive
• Campion's Brag or Challenge to the Privy Council at Eternal Word Television Network website.
• Campion's Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith . . . , (the Decem Rationes) eBook at Project Gutenberg, in English and Latin, translated by Joseph Rickaby, commentary by J.H.P., (1910).
• "Thames Valley Papists" from Reformation to Emancipation 1534–1829 by Tony Hadland (1992) at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 March 2012)