Blessed Edmund Campion

Chapter 2: PREFATORY NOTE

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A chronological biography traces the life of a sixteenth-century English scholar from promising schoolboy and celebrated Oxford academic to a committed member of the Society of Jesus. It follows his continental studies and theological formation at Douay, Prague and Rome, his missionary labours in Ireland and clandestine ministry in the English counties, and the events leading to his arrest, trial, and execution. Alongside this narrative the author examines intellectual influences, personal vocation, relationships with benefactors and fellow Catholics, and the wider confessional conflicts that shaped both his public actions and private convictions.

PREFATORY NOTE

This little book leans much, as every modern work on the subject must do, upon Mr. Richard Simpson’s monograph: Edmund Campion, Jesuit Protomartyr of England. In many points supplementing or contradicting that splendid though biased narrative, the present writer has gratefully taken advantage of the researches of the Rev. John Hungerford Pollen, S.J. It may also be useful to state that the contemporary citations, when not otherwise specified, are from two invaluable witnesses, Parsons and Allen. The translated passages have been compared with the originals, and sometimes newly rendered.

L. I. G.

St. Ives, Cornwall: Epiphany, 1908.