These were the conditions of life, always vexatious, often utterly disastrous, of the people to whom the Jesuits were being sent, people drawn from the most responsible and honourable class, guilty of no crime except adherence to the traditional faith of the country. We shall now fittingly present a revealing section on life in post-1570 England, as perceived through Waugh’s compact words on The Hero and on the growing sacrifices of the missionary Jesuits: This well-researched and moving book by Evelyn Waugh–first published with much gratitude to the learned Jesuit Father Martin D’Arcy in 1935 1-was divided into four interwoven sections, which are alluring portions and nuanced aspects of Edmund Campion’s life of forty-one years: The Scholar The Priest The Hero and The Martyr. “There was to be no easy way of reconciliation, but that it was only through blood and hatred and derision that the Faith was one day to return to England….(Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion (1946), page 49-my emphasis added) (Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion (1946), pages 47-48-my emphasis added) He was the first of the great company of Englishmen who were to sacrifice their worldly prospects and their lives as a result of Pius V’s proclamation. On the scaffold he made a present to the Queen of a great diamond ring which he had been wearing at the time of his arrest, with the assurance that he meant her no personal harm, but believed her deposition to be for her own soul’s good and the country’s. John Felton, a Catholic gentleman of wealth and good reputation. “Three months later, on Corpus Christi Day, May 25 th, a manuscript copy of the document was nailed to the door of the Bishop of London’s palace, in St. “Elizabeth was charged and found guilty on seventeen counts ….Elizabeth was excommunicated and her subjects released from moral obligations of obedience to her. (Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion (1946), pages 46 and 49-my emphasis added)
There was now the best possible evidence to confirm anti-Catholic feeling. The See of Peter was at this moment occupied by a Saint….That year, at any rate, the Bull came most opportunely to Cecil. “In the spring of 1570 there occurred another event that completely recast the Catholic cause Pope Pius V excommunicated the Queen …. There, but for the Grace of God, went Edmund Campion.” (Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion (1935, 1946), page 21-my emphasis added “Tobie Matthew died full of honours in 1628. 973 B.C.)Īlso the Traditional Feast of the Holy Innocents (1 A.D.) Pope Pius V’s 1570 Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth and the New 1581 Jesuit Spirit: Hence “ the Chivalry of Lepanto and the Poetry of La Mancha” Feast of King David the Poet and King (d.
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