Michael Morrison (priest)
![](../I/m/The_Liberation_of_Bergen-belsen_Concentration_Camp%2C_April_1945_BU4270.jpg)
Father Michael Morrison (October 1908, Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, U.K. - April 7, 1973, Dublin, Republic of 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.
He taught at Belvedere College, 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.[2] 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.
External links
References
- ↑ Find a Grave Memorial #125902216 archived at July 12th 2014, see findagrave.com for the current version
- ↑ Celinscak, Mark (2015). Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Concentration Camp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442615700. line feed character in
|title=
at position 83 (help)