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Morse, Henry, St.
English Jesuit martyr; b. Brome, Suffolk, 1595; d. Tyburn, Feb. 1 (N.S.; Jan. 22, O.S.), 1645 (N.S.; 1644O.S.). He studied law at Barnards Inn, London, was converted to Catholicism, and entered the English College at douai, France, in 1614. He returned to England, was arrested, and after four years in a London prison, was released and banished. From Douai he went to the English College in Rome, where he was ordained. In 1624 he returned to Newcastle on Tyne in England, and in 1626, traveling by ship to enter the Jesuit novitiate in Watten, he was captured. He completed his novitiate under a fellow Jesuit prisoner during four years in a York prison. An exile again, he became chaplain to English troops in the Netherlands. In 1633 he was sent to London to minister to the poor during an epidemic of the plague, and he converted many families. He was arrested in 1638 and charged with having been ordained by authority of the See of Rome, contrary to the statute of 27 Elizabeth, and with having seduced His Majesty's subjects from their due faith and allegiance. Having
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Saint Henry Morse
Henry Morse (1595-1645) was five times arrested for being Catholic and four times was released or escaped. His ability to get out of prison meant that he had a much longer ministry career than most Jesuits in England.
He began his studies at Cambridge then took up the study of law at Barnard's Inn, London; at the same time he became increasingly dissatisfied with the established religion and more convinced of the truth of the Catholic faith. He was received into the Catholic church at the English College at Douai, Flanders, and then returned to England to prepare to enter the seminary that autumn. Port authorities in England asked him to take the oath of allegiance acknowledging the king's supremacy in religious matters. The recent convert refused to do so and was arrested the first time. He was imprisoned four years before being set free in 1618 when the king released hundreds of religious dissenters and exiled them to France. Morse first went to Douai but the English College had too many students, so he was sent to Rome, where studied theology and was orda
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Henry Morse
English Roman Catholic saint
For the American architect, see Henry G. Morse. For the house in Taunton, Massachusetts, see Henry Morse House.
Henry Morse (1595 – 1 February 1645) was one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Biography
Henry Morse was born a Protestant in 1595 at his grandmother's house at Brome in the English county of Suffolk, the son of Robert Morse, a minor landowner of Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk.[1][2]
At the age of 16, Henry went to study law at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and continued at Gray's Inn, London. Upon his father's death in 1614, he went to France to join his brother William, who was at Douai studying to be a priest. Morse converted to Roman Catholicism at the English College, Douay. He returned to England to settle some financial arrangements and was arrested at Dover for refusing to take the Oath of allegiance and confined to Southwarkgaol.[3]
Morse remained incarcerated with a number of priests for four years, until King James I of England ordered amnesty and bani
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