St. Edmund Campion was an English Jesuit priest who was martyred by the government of Queen Elizabeth I in 1581 for refusing to recant his religious beliefs. He was canonized in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, a group of Catholics who were executed by English authorities during the Reformation.
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