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| St.Henry Morse |  |
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, tried and convicted of the crime of Catholicism in 1647,
and martyred.
Death in 1645
Beatified in 1929
Canonized in 1970 as one of the Forty
Martyrs of England and Wales.