ABSTRACT
In 1573, Edmund Campion, aged 33, joined one of the most dynamic educational missions in history. After only two months, on 10 October 1573, Campion left Prague with the Master of Novices, Giovanni Paolo Campani, and his Socius, John Vivarius, to establish a new novitiate in Brno. Campion performed the Spiritual Exercises under the direction of Campani, and formed a profound bond with his confessor broken only by death. He devoted one month to service of the sick, another to begging alms, another to menial tasks about the house, and the last to catechesis. When Campion arrived in Prague in 1574, the Jesuit college had become part of the life of the court and the city, contributing to public processions, displays of learning and dramatic interludes. As Rudolf started to move his court to Prague Castle in 1577, Campion found himself in one of the most artistic and ecumenically religious cities in Europe.
