Talk:Saint Serapion (Zurbarán)

Campion to be or not to be
Is this a painting of Campion? Modernist (talk) 16:26, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Edmund Campion
As a youth, Edmund Campion attended Oxford University where, through his intelligence and scholarship, he came to the attention of Queen Elizabeth. During a visit to Douai, France in 1572, he converted to Catholicism and a year later traveled to Rome to enter the Jesuit Order. In 1580 as part of the Jesuit mission he was sent to England. Following his return to England, on June 24, 1580, he was hunted by the authorities who had been informed of the arrival of the Jesuits and of the papal sponsored forces in the Irish province of Munster in support of the Irish rebel James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, who represented a threat to Queen Elizabeth. Campion's outspoken preaching as well as his written "Decem Rationes" ("Ten Reasons"), a rhetorical display of reasons against the Anglican Church made his presence in England extremely dangerous. After his subsequent capture in July 1581, he was sent to the Tower of London for refusing to renounce his Catholic faith to acknowledge the Protestant Queen Elizabeth as the rightful crown of England. While captive, Campion was both racked and offered wealth and dignities to renounce his beliefs. He refused and was executed on December 1, 1581. His last words on the scaffold are recorded as: "Spectaculum facti sumus Deo, angelis et hominibus" (We are made a spectacle unto God, unto his angels and unto men, verified this day in me, who am here a spectacle unto my Lord God, a spectacle unto his angels and unto you men).

In case anyone needs this...Modernist (talk) 16:38, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * My misunderstanding! Eek. Ceoil (talk) 16:43, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I enjoyed the learning process...:) Modernist (talk) 16:50, 4 May 2009 (UTC)