Edmund Campion (1540–1581)

Edmund Campion was a Catholic emigrant from England who studied at the college of Douai and joined the Jesuits in Rome in 1573. He completed his noviciate at Brno and taught rhetoric at the Jesuit school in Prague before returning as a missionary to England, where he was to promote the reconversion of its people to Catholicism. He was forced to go underground in 1580, but was arrested and executed a year later.

Portrait of Edmund Campion (1540–1581), engraving, 126x72 mm, 17. century, unknown artist; source: © Trustees of the British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1862-0517-180.