Eighty years after St Edmund Campion was martyred at Tyburn, Father Henry More – the great-grandson of St Thomas More – visited the North of England to find that the sermons the great Elizabethan Jesuit missionary preached there “remained fresh” in the memories of the local people. He was amazed to discover Catholics in Lancashire who could tell him precisely what St Edmund had to say about the Hail Mary, the Ten Lepers, the Last Judgement, about the King who went off on a journey, among many other subjects.
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Lessons that remain forever fresh
eighty years after st edmund campion was martyred at tyburn, father henry more – the great-grandson of st thomas more – visited the north of...
Simon Caldwell

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