Bede Camm

Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B., (1864-1942) was an English Benedictine monk and martyrologist. He is best known for his many works on the English Catholic martyrs, which helped to keep their memories alive in the newly reemerging Catholic Church of Victorian England.

He was born Reginald Camm on 26 December 1864 in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey (then Middlesex), England, the son of John Camm, a retired cavalryman of the 12th Royal Lancers and his wife, Caroline Arden. As a youth he was educated first at Westminster School and then at Keble College, Oxford, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology in 1884.

Camm was ordained a minister in the Church of England in 1888, and passed a short period as a curate. He was drawn to the Catholic Church, however, and he became a convert to Catholicism in 1890, received at Maredsous Abbey in France. He was accepted into the novitiate of the abbey on 8 September of that same year and made his first profession as a monk on 8 December 1891. He was then sent to Rome for further studies, where he was solemly professed on Christmas Day 1894 and ordained as a Catholic priest on 9 March 1895 at the Basilica of St. John Lateran. He was then sent to live at Erdington Abbey, one of the first English members in a community of refugee monks from Germany.

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