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Bl. Henry Morse
February 1, Blessed


Source: Catholicsaints.info



Canonization date:  October 25, 1970 by Pope Paul VI

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Born on 1549 at Brome, Suffolk, England. A 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.

He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on  February 1, 1645 at Tyburn, London, England.



 








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