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Edmund Campion was born the son of a Catholic bookseller in London in the year of Our Lord 1540. At Oxford he was considered among the greatest scholars that university had ever seen. The Protestant Queen Elizabeth I offered him any position he desired, and the ambitious Campion took the Oath of Supremacy and became an Anglican deacon. He soon had second thoughts, however, and briefly hid in Ireland before returning to England in disguise, where he observed the trial of Bl. John Storey, one of Oxford’s first Catholic martyrs. Campion then fled to the English Catholic College at Douai in France, where he reconciled with the Church. He made a barefoot pilgrimage to Rome, and was eventually ordained a Jesuit priest in Prague. After a vision of Our Lady foretold his martyrdom, Campion made his way back to England, where he ministered to underground Catholics and quietly evangelized, until a spy finally betrayed him. After a long sham trial, during which Campion ran intellectual circles round the prosecutors, the holy priest was hanged, drawn and quartered alongside Ss. Ralph Sherwin and Alexander Briant, in the year of Our Lord 1581. One young spectator, St. Henry Walpole, became a Jesuit priest and martyr himself after Campion’s blood splattered his white shirt.
THE prophet Nahum, who was buried in Begabar.
At Rome, the holy martyrs Diodorus, priest, and Marian, deacon, with many others, who by the command of the emperor Numerian, were made partakers of the glory of martyrdom.
In the same city, the martyrdom of the saints Lucius, Rogatus, Cassian, and Candida.
The same day, St. Ansanus, martyr, who confessed Christ at Rome, and was cast into prison, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. Being afterwards conducted to Siena, in Tuscany, he there ended the course of his martyrdom by decapitation.
At Amelia, in Umbria, St. Olympias, ex-consul, who was converted to the faith by blessed Firmina, and being tortured on the rack, consummated his martyrdom under Diocletian.
At Arbele, in Persia, St. Ananias, martyr.
At Narni, St. Proculus, bishop and martyr, who after performing many good works, was beheaded by order of Totila, king of the Goths.
At Casale, St. Evasius, bishop and martyr.
At Milan, St. Castritian, bishop, who was eminent for virtues and the practice of pious and religious deeds in very troublous times for the Church.
At Brescia, St. Ursicinus, bishop.
At Noyon, St. Eligius, bishop, whose life is rendered illustrious by a considerable number of miracles.
At Verdun, St. Agericus, bishop.
The same day, St. Natalia, wife of the blessed martyr Adrian, under the emperor Diocletian. For a long time she served the holy martyrs detained in prison at Nicomedia, and when their combats were at an end, she repaired to Constantinople, where she went peacefully to her repose in the Lord.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.