Edmund Campion

About this book

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." 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.