The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (493 page)

Campbell, Joseph
(writer on myth)
:

see
MYTH
.

 
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(
c.
1540–81).
Jesuit
priest
and
martyr
. He was ordained
deacon
in the
Church of England
in 1569, but then left for Dublin. He returned to England two years later and went on to
Douai
, then to Rome, where he entered the Society of Jesus. He was ordained in Prague in 1578 and shortly afterwards left for England with Robert Parsons. He landed at Dover in June 1580. He escaped arrest for a year, though his writings, especially
Decem Rationes
, won him considerable fame. He was arrested at Lyford Grange in Berkshire, and was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on 1 Dec. 1581. He was
canonized
as one of the
Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
in 1970. Feast day, 20 Oct.

 
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C
mu
.

A form of the goddess
Durg
appearing from her forehead in her fierce aspect as the destroyer of the demons Ca
a and Mu
a.

 
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