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St. Edmund Campion and the Jesuit English Mission of 1580 | Prof. Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning

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The Importance of the Early Christian Martyrs

The plight of English Catholicism was rapidly gaining a pan-European audience. The cult of the early Christian martyrs led to a trend for church frescoes depicting their sufferings. Charles Dickens viewed these images during his tour of Italy in 1844, and he described them as 'horrific'

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