Saint Henry Morse
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- Memorial
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1 February
25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Profile
- Convert.
Studied for the priesthood in Rome.
Joined the Jesuits in 1626.
Worked as a covert priest in London, and among 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
- Beatified
- 15 December 1929
- Canonized
- 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
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