- Bede Camm
Reginald Bede Camm (1864-1942) was an English
Benedictine martyrologist. A monk ofErdington Abbey , he is known for works on the English Catholic martyrs.Life
He was educated at
Westminster School andKeble College, Oxford , graduating in 1887. Ordained in theAnglican ministry, he became a convert toCatholicism after a short period as a curate, in 1890. He made his profession as a monk in 1891, and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1895, the year in which he arrived at Erdington; he moved on toDownside Abbey in 1913.Bede Camm, "Forgotten Shrines: An Account of Some Old Catholic Halls and Families in England and of Relics and Memorials of the English Martyrs" (2003 reprint), introduction at p. vii.] [ [http://www.plantata.org.uk/papers/ebch/2001hodgetts.pdf (PDF)] , p. 10-11.] ]He spent the years of
World War I as an army chaplain, spending time inMesopotamia . [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:QDSmO93M2yIJ:www.downside.co.uk/abbey/downloads/HarvingtonHallseptember2007.doc+%22Bede+Camm%22+downside&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=uk] [Michael Francis Snape, "God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars" (2005), p. 183.]From 1919 to 1931 he was Master of Benet House, Cambridge.
Works
*"A Benedictine Martyr in England: being the life and times of the venerable servant of God Dom John Roberts" (1897)
*"In the Brave Days of Old: historical sketches of the Elizabethan persecution" (1899)
*"Courtier, Monk and Martyr: a sketch of the life and sufferings of Blessed Sebastian Newdigate of the London Charterhouse" (1901)
*"Lives of the English Martyrs: declared blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and 1895" (1904)
*"Some Devonshire screens and the saints represented on their panels" (1906)
*"Tyburn Conferences: Oxford, Douay, Tyburn" (1906)
*"The Voyage of the "Pax"; an allegory" (1906)
*"A Birthday Book of the English Martyrs" (1908)
*"William Cardinal Allen" (1908)
*"Roodscreens and Roodlofts" (1909) withFrederick Bligh Bond
*"The Martyr-Monk of Manchester, Blessed Ambrose Barlow" (1910)
*"Forgotten Shrines" (1910)
*"Heroes of the Faith" (1910)
*"Sister Mary of St. Francis, S.N.D., the Hon. Laura Petre (Stafford-Jernigham)" (1913)
*"A North-Country Martyr (Venerable John Ducket)" (1914)
*"At the Feet of the King of Martyrs" (1916)
*"Ven. Dominic Barberi and the conversion of England" (1922)
*"Pilgrim Paths in Latin Lands" (1923)
*"The Story of Blessed Thomas More" (1926)
*"The English Martyrs and Anglican Orders" (1929)
*"The Good Fruit of Tyburn Tree" (1929)
*"The English Martyrs; papers from the Summer school of Catholic studies held at Cambridge, July 28-Aug. 6, 1928" (1929)
*"Nine Martyr Monks: the lives of the English Benedictine martyrs beatified in 1929" (1931)
*"The Life of Blessed John Wall, O.F.M.: the martyr of Harvington" (1932)
*"The Foundress of Tyburn Convent" (1935)
*"Anglican Memories" (1935)
*"Witnesses to the Holy Mass and Other Sermons" (2004)
*"The English Martyrs under Henry VIII: I. Fisher and More" with Leonard William LongstaffNotes
Further reading
*Aidan Bellenger, "Two Antiquarian Monks: the Papers of Dom Bede Camm and Dom Ethelbert Horn at Downside" Catholic Archives 6 (1986) 11
*Aidan Bellenger, "Dom Bede Camm (1864-1942), Monastic Martyrologist", in Diana Wood (editor), "Martyrs and martyrologies: papers read at the 1992 Summer Meeting and the 1993 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society" (1993)
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