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Bede Camm

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In 1909 Camm came to the rescue of the Tyburn nuns. The financial situation of the nuns' monastery had become so severe that they were in process of selling the property, and had already packed. He approached Mother St Peter and offered to help them with a legacy he had received from his father,
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for their priory. This donation saved the community in its early days, and the site of devotion to England's martyrs. He went on to help develop the site, obtaining more relics and stained glass windows in erecting a larger shrine. It was he who designed a recreation of the
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to the Catholic Church—among the first of its kind accepted by Rome, at the invitation of the abbot of that monastery, in June 1913 Camm went to serve as their
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during that period, seeing them as heroic witnesses to his new faith, who were also natives of England. Out of this, he was to publish his two-volume work
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to the martyrs in the crypt of the monastery chapel and became the caretakers of the site. Camm developed a deep respect for the foundress.
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Martyrs and martyrologies: papers read at the 1992 Summer Meeting and the 1993 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
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Forgotten Shrines: An Account of Some Old Catholic Halls and Families in England and of Relics and Memorials of the English Martyrs
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Courtier, Monk and Martyr: a sketch of the life and sufferings of Blessed Sebastian Newdigate of the London Charterhouse
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The English Martyrs; papers from the Summer school of Catholic studies held at Cambridge, 28 July – 6 Aug. 1928
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A Benedictine Martyr in England: being the life and times of the venerable servant of God, Dom John Roberts
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Archives of the monastic community of Downside Abbey, through the courtesy of the Office of the Abbot.
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God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars
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Two Antiquarian Monks: the Papers of Dom Bede Camm and Dom Ethelbert Horn at Downside
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in 1904. While he was working on his book, he came to know Mother Mary of St Peter (
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Nine Martyr Monks: the lives of the English Benedictine martyrs beatified in 1929
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Lives of the English Martyrs: declared blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and 1895
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Camm's own abbey started to experience problems during the years leading up to
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laws enacted in France at the time. The nuns built a new monastery located in
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Sister Mary of St. Francis, S.N.D., the Hon. Laura Petre (Stafford-Jernigham)
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In the Brave Days of Old: historical sketches of the Elizabethan persecution
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Some Devonshire screens and the saints represented on their panels
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and his wife, Caroline Arden. As a youth he was educated first at
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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of the abbey on 8 September of that same year and made his first
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in Rome for further studies, where he was solemnly professed on
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The Life of Blessed John Wall, O.F.M.: the martyr of Harvington
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Hodgetts, Michael (2001). "Erdington Abbey:1850-1876-2001".
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The English Martyrs under Henry VIII: I. Fisher and More
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clearing their debts and funding the construction of a
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as a monk on 8 December 1891. He was then sent to the
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He was accepted into the 7: 833: 831: 514:The Voyage of the "Pax"; an allegory 301:to Catholicism in 1890, received at 787:"Harvington Hall (September 2007)" 574:At the Feet of the King of Martyrs 14: 879:The Degrees of the Spiritual Life 315:Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm 901: 689: 592:The Story of Blessed Thomas More 333:. Camm was then sent to live at 999:Alumni of Keble College, Oxford 628:The Foundress of Tyburn Convent 648:with Leonard William Longstaff 1: 974:People from Sunbury-on-Thames 861:Catholic Archives 6 (1986) 11 742:Benedictine History Symposium 604:The Good Fruit of Tyburn Tree 586:Pilgrim Paths in Latin Lands 410:From 1912 to 1913 he was at 354:Lives of the English Martyrs 327:Basilica of St. John Lateran 900:(public domain audiobooks) 297:, however, and he became a 266:, from which he received a 1020: 979:English military chaplains 868:, in Diana Wood (editor), 462:St Benet's Hall, Cambridge 989:Burials at Downside Abbey 959:English religious writers 876:Auguste Saudreau (1907). 687:– via Google Books. 532:Roodscreens and Roodlofts 291:St Agnes, Kennington Park 196: 192: 187:St Agnes, Kennington Park 174:1888 (Church of England) 137: 133: 40: 735:20 November 2008 at the 236:Reginald Percy John Camm 54:Reginald Percy John Camm 929:Christian hagiographers 821:Michael Francis Snape, 669:"Camm, Reverend Bede". 325:on 9 March 1895 at the 321:1894 and ordained as a 238:on 26 December 1864 in 677:The Encyclopedia Press 526:William Cardinal Allen 382:. They opened a small 293:. 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Dom
O.S.B

Sunbury-on-Thames
Clifton
Downside Abbey
Westminster School
Keble College, Oxford
Church of England
Roman Catholic
St Agnes, Kennington Park
Dom
O.S.B.
Benedictine
monk
martyrologist
Victorian England
Sunbury-on-Thames
Surrey
Middlesex
cavalryman
12th Royal Lancers
Westminster School
Keble College, Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
Theology
ordained
Church of England
curate
St Agnes, Kennington Park

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