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Saint Edmund Campion
Saint Edmund Campion

Saint Edmund Campion

Also known as: Edmundus Campion; The Pope’s Champion

Saint
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

December 1

Born

January 24, 1540

Died

December 1, 1

Canonized

May 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Beatified

9 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII

Biography

Saint Edmund Campion, also known as Edmundus Campion and The Pope's Champion, was born on January 24, 1540, in London, England. He was the son of a Catholic bookseller named Edmund, whose family had converted to Anglicanism. Initially, the young Edmund planned to follow in his father's footsteps and enter the family trade....