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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 1 st of December WELCOME! SAINT EDMUND CAMPION, PRIEST AND MARTYR  St Edmund Campion (1540-81), English Jesuit, hanged in London His life has been published by Bombinus, and several others. What we here give is an extract out of the old English author, from whom we had our account of Mr Hanse, &c. whom we prefer to all the rest, as being more ancient, and personally acquainted with Mr Campion, and an eye witness to his death. His account was published in 1582. Edmund Campion was born in London, where he had his first education in Christ Church Hospital. From whence he was sent to Oxford, where he was brought up in St John's college, being very much beloved for his excellent qualifications, by Sir Thomas White, of worthy memory, the founder of that house, at whose burial he made an excellent oration in Latin, having made the like before in English, at the funeral of my Lady Dudley, late wife of the Earl of Leicest...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED LUKE KIRBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR 16th century houses, painted by Auguste Mayer He was born in the bishopric of Durham, according to Raissius; others say at Richmond, in Yorkshire. He was master of arts in one of our universities; but going abroad to Douay, in Flanders, was received into the English college there, 1576, and made priest in 1577; and the year following sent upon the mission. Where he had not been long before he again went abroad, and travelled to Rome, partly for devotion, and partly for further improvement in learning. Here he remained in the English college till 1580, when he returned into England, and was not long after apprehended: for I find by a printed diary of things transacted in the Tower of London from 1580 till 1585, that on the 5th of December, 1580, Luke Kirby, Thomas Cottam , and other priests, were brought to the Tower from other prisons; and that these two, on the 10th ...

  WELCOME! TORTURE OF CATHOLIC PRIESTS BY ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AGENTS DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I AND BEYOND  In the Tower of London, the Catholic priest was was subjected to the "Scavenger's Daughter" Torture of Catholic priests by the English government during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The rack (stretching) and the Scavenger's daughter (compression) were employed to extract information about fellow Catholics (Source: Memoirs of Missionary Priests &c., Bishop Richard Challoner, originally published 1741) A number of priests were most cruelly racked In the Diary of Edward Rushton, a Catholic Priest, who was imprisoned during four years in the Tower of London, upon account of his priestly character, the following entry occurs under the year 1580. - "December 10th,  Thomas Cottam  and Luke Kirby , priests, suffered compression in the Scavenger's Daughter, for one hour and more, the former of whom bled profusely at the nostrils."  - Ed.  (...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED THOMAS COTTAM, PRIEST AND MARTYR "P. Thomas Cottamus, English S.J., hanged for the Faith of Christ in London in England¹" Thomas Cottam was born in Lancashire, brought up in Brazen-nose college, in Oxford, where he took the degree of batchelor of arts, March 23, 1568. From whence he went to London, and was there for some sime a schoolmaster; but embracing the catholic religion, he left the kingdom, and went over to Douay, to the English college lately founded there. From Douay, after some time, he was sent to Rome, where he entered into the Society of Jesus : " but there falling into a consuming and lingering sickness, he was, by his superiors, sent to Lyons, in France, to try if by change of air he might be recovered but the sickness so grew and increased upon him, that he was made an unfit man for them, and thereupon they dismissed him.  "Whilst Mr Cottam was at Lyons, Sledd, that...