Campion's captors, on his refusal under severe …
Years: 1581 - 1581
December
Campion's captors, on his refusal under severe torture to recant his religious convictions, invent charges that he has conspired to overthrow the Queen.
Campion, who exhibits religious zeal and great courage throughout his ordeal, is convicted of treason and hanged in December.
Parsons has meanwhile returned to the Continent and been assigned by William Allen—an influential English Catholic living abroad—the task of directing from abroad the Jesuit mission to England.
Meanwhile, the duc d'Anjou is having no success in his second wooing visit to Elizabeth.
Locations
People
Groups
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- France, (Valois) Kingdom of
- England, (Tudor) Kingdom of
- Protestantism
- Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus
Topics
- Protestant Reformation
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
- Elizabethan Period
