Edmund Campion Jesuit And Martyr

Evelyn Waugh presented his biography of St. Edmund Campion the Elizabethan poet scholar and gentleman who became the haunted trapped and murdered priest as a simple perfectly true story of heroism and holiness.But it is written with a novelists eye for the telling incident and with all the elegance and feeling of a master of English prose. From the years of success as an Oxford scholar to entry into the newly founded Society of Jesus and a professorship in Prague Campions life was an inexorable progress towards the doomed mission to England. There followed pursuit betrayal a spirited defense of loyalty to the Queen and a horrifying martyrs death at Tyburn.