Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

St.Henry Morse
Born in 1549 at Brome, Suffolk, England

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.