English Jesuit Mission Begins
1581
Edmund Campion and Robert Persons landed secretly in England as the first English Jesuit missionaries. Campion wrote a pamphlet known as Campion's Brag and was captured at Lyford Grange within months. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. The Jesuit mission to reconvert England had found its first martyr.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.