Rev Morgan O'Brien SJ
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Rev
First Name:
Morgan
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O'Brien
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SJ
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Youghal, Co Cork
Country of Birth:
Ireland
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Sydney NSW
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Australia
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Gore Hill NSW
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Australia
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Biographical Notes
Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
O'Brien, Morgan
Pastor, teacher; born Youghal, Ireland, 11 June 1849; died Sydney, 25 July 1901, aged 52.
Morgan O'Brien joined the Society as a secular priest, having studied at Maynooth and working in Belfast before entering. He was 38 years of age when he joined the Jesuit noviciate, 7 September 1887, at Dromore, where he spent one year.
He had another year's study of theology at Louvain before being sent to Australia and St Patrick's College, in 1889. He taught and was hall prefect and prefect of the Sodality of the Holy Angels.
He spent two years in pastoral work in the parish of Hawthorn, 1894-95, and then taught at Riverview, 1895-96, at St Aloysius' College, Bourke Street, Sydney, 1896-98, and later at St Patrick's College, 1898-01, where he was spiritual father and assistant editor of the Messenger.
O'Brien was in weak health when sent to Australia, presumably because he suffered from consumption, but he did valuable work giving retreats and missions as well as teaching. He was a man of religious simplicity, earnestness and zeal.
(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)