Saint Henry Morse

Memorial

• 1 February
• 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Profile

Convert. Studied for the priesthood in Rome, Italy. Joined the Jesuits in 1626. Worked as a covert priest in London, England. Worked with plague victims in 1636, catching the plague himself – and recovering from it. Betrayed to the authorities by an informer, he was briefly imprisoned in 1638. He ministered to people around the countryside of southern England for years. Arrested and convicted of the crime of Catholicism in 1647. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

Born

• 1549 at Brome, Suffolk, England

Died

• hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 February 1645 at Tyburn, London, England

Venerated

• 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Canonized

• 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Hagiography Circle
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Henry Morse”. Saints.SQPN.com. 11 August 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-henry-morse/>