Michael Morrison (priest)
Father Michael Morrison (October 1908, Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, U.K. - April 1973, Dublin, Ireland[1]) was an Irish Jesuit priest. Educated at Sexton St. Christian Brothers, and at the Jesuit Mungret College, Limerick, he trained as a Jesuit Priest in St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Co. Offaly from 1925, and was ordained on 31 July 1939.[2]
He was teaching at Belvedere College when in 1941 during the Second World War, the British army called on Irish priests to serve as chaplains.
He was a British Army chaplain associated with the Allied liberation of Belsen, a notorious death camp in April 1945.[3] He made the camp into a centre for daily Holy Mass. Several people of varying religious persuasions attended his services.
Following the war, he went to Australia working as a teacher.
He collapsed while walking up the stairs in Belvedere House and died in Jervis Street Hospital soon after in April 1973.[1] He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.[2]
References
- Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 BBC History
- Back to citation occurrence 2.0 Back to citation occurrence 2.1 Michael Morrison Jesuit Priest and Chaplain Jesuit Archives.
- Back to citation Celinscak, Mark (2015). Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Concentration Camp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442615700.