Sam Conedera, SJ - Friends in Heaven: Edmund Campion and the Martyrs of England & Wales

The Lumen Christi Institute

A webinar lecture with Fr. Sam Z. Conedera, S.J. (Saint Louis University). Originally broadcast as a live web event on December 1, 2020, marking the feast day of St. Edmund Campion. This program was presented with the Bollandist Society. "The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood." With these bold words Edmund Campion, SJ, communicated to Her Majesty's Privy Council in 1581 the Catholic plan to restore the faith in England. On December 1, the Church celebrates Campion and his fellow martyrs of England and Wales. They did not succeed in restoring the faith, but they did carry out one of the most dangerous and fascinating clandestine missions in the history of the Church. "Friends in Heaven" explores the origin, activities, and ultimate demise of these men, as well as the lay Catholics who aided them, in the Elizabethan age, and concludes with a brief discussion of how they came to be canonized.