Blessed Edward James
Also known as: Gerald Edwards; Gerard Edwards; Edward Campion
Feast Day
1 October; 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai; 1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University
Born
At Breaston, Derbyshire, England
Died
Hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 October 1588 at Chichester, West Sussex, England
Beatified
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Venerated
8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Biography
Blessed Edward James, also known as Gerald Edwards, Gerard Edwards, and Edward Campion, was born in Breaston, Derbyshire, England. He was raised in a Protestant family but eventually converted to Catholicism. Blessed Edward received his education at Saint John’s College, Oxford, but due to his refusal to acknowledge the queen as the head of Christianity in England, he was not awarded a degree.
Cause for Canonization
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