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1 December 1581
Edmund Campion executed
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The Jesuit Edmund Campion is executed at Tyburn in London. He leads the
first undercover Jesuit mission to England, travelling the land, visiting
secret Roman Catholics, administering the sacraments and writing pamphlets.
Despite his death, the mission is symbolic of a revival in militant English
Catholicism, which, although numerically small, strikes fear into the
government. Many English Jesuits are trained in France and Spain.
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