Today is the feast of St Edmund Campion one of the forty martyrs of England and Wales: he was young and inspirational this is what he said just before his martyrdom at Tyburn:
“As to the treasons which have been laid to my charge, and for which I come here to suffer, I desire you all to bear witness with me that I am thereto altogether innocent…I am a Catholic man and a priest; in that Faith I have lived, and in that Faith do I intend to die. If you esteem my Religion treason, then I am guilty; as for the other treason, I never committed any, God is my judge.”