Friends in Heaven: Edmund Campion and the Martyrs of England & Wales

A lecture by Fr. Sam Conedera, S.J. (Saint Louis University). This event is co-presented with the Bollandist Society and America Media,

"The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood." With these bold words Edmund Campion, SJ, communicated to Her Majesty's Privy Council in 1581 the Catholic plan to restore the faith in England.  On December 1, the Church celebrates Campion and his fellow martyrs of England and Wales.  They did not succeed in restoring the faith, but they did carry out one of the most dangerous and fascinating clandestine missions in the history of the Church.  "Friends in Heaven" explores the origin, activities, and ultimate demise of these men, as well as the lay Catholics who aided them, in the Elizabethan age, and concludes with a brief discussion of how they came to be canonized.

Presented on the feast day of St. Edmund Campion, this event continues our event series on the saints, examining the lives of the martyrs of England and Wales.

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