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1 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Happy Feast of St. Edmund Campion, St. Robert Southwell and the English Martyrs:

"And touching our Society, be it known to you that we have made a league--all the Jesuits in the world, whose succession and multitude must overreach all the practice of England--cheerfully to...
..carry the cross you shall lay upon us, and never to despair your recovery, while we have a man left to enjoy your Tyburn, or to be racked with your torments, or consumed with your prisons. The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood...
So the faith was planted: So it must be restored.

If these my offers be refused, and my endeavours can take no place, and I, having run thousands of miles to do you good, shall be rewarded with rigour. I have no more to say but to recommend your case and mine to Almighty God...
...the Searcher of Hearts, who send us his grace, and see us at accord before the day of payment, to the end we may at last be friends in heaven, when all injuries shall be forgotten."
From "Campion's Brag," addressed to Queen Elizabeth I's Privy Council, 1580

Image: Fr. William Hart McNichols.

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