Bede Camm

Reginald Bede Camm (1864-1942) was an English Benedictine martyrologist. A monk of Erdington Abbey, he is known for works on the English Catholic martyrs.

Life

He was educated at Westminster School and Keble College, Oxford, graduating in 1887. Ordained in the Anglican ministry, he became a convert to Catholicism 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 to Downside Abbey in 1913.^[1][2]

He spent the years of World War I as an army chaplain, spending time in Mesopotamia.^[3][4]

From 1919 to 1931 he was Master of Benet House, Cambridge.^[1]

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) with Frederick 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 Longstaff

Notes

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)