Saint Edmund Campion. Feast Day 1 December.

English: Portrait of Edmund Campion

(labelled Thomas Campion in error).

Español: Retrato de Edmund Campion.

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: National Portrait Gallery, London

Author: Unknown.

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Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit Priest and Martyr. 

While conducting an underground ministry in officially-Anglican England, Campion was arrested by Priest Hunters. 

Coat-of-Arms of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England.

The actual ropes used in Saint Edmund Campion’s execution are now kept in glass display tubes at Stonyhurst College[25].

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http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/

index.php?title=Stonyhurst_College

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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 on 1 December, the day of his Martyrdom.

The actual ropes used in his execution are now kept in glass display tubes at Stonyhurst College[25] in Lancashire; each year, they are placed on the Altar of Saint Peter’s Church, at Stonyhurst College, for Mass to Celebrate Campion’s Feast Day — which is always a holiday for the school.