Michael Morrison (priest), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish priest
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Place of Birth: Listowel, Munster, Ireland
About Michael Morrison (priest)
- Father Michael Morrison (October 1908, Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, U.K.
- - April 7, 1973, Dublin, Republic of Ireland) was an Irish Jesuit priest.
- Educated at Sexton St.
- Christian Brothers, and at the Jesuit Mungret College, Limerick, he trained as a Jesuit Priest. 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.
- He made that atrocious camp into center 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 steps in Belvedere House and Gardens and died in Jervis Street Hospital soon after in April 1973.
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