Henry Morse

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Henry Morse
The saint, from a martyrology
Born	1595, Brome, Suffolk, England
Died	1 February 1645, Tyburn, London
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Beatified	15 December 1929, Rome by Pope Pius XI
Canonized	25 October 1970, Rome by Pope Paul VI, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Feast	1st February; 25 October (as part of the 40 Martyrs)
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Saint Henry Morse, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

Born a Protestant in 1595 at Brome, Suffolk, England, he converted to Catholicism, studied for the priesthood in Rome and joined the Jesuits in 1626. Worked as a covert priest in London, and among plague victims in 1636, he caught the plague himself but recovered 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. He was arrested and convicted for practising as a Catholic priest and hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 February 1645 at Tyburn, London.