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Henry Cyril Day, S.J. (29 May 1865 – 23 January 1951) was a British
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and author.


Biography

He was educated at
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, in
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,
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. From there he entered the
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in 1884 and was ordained in 1894. Day was opposed to
women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...
and was criticised vehemently by Welsh Catholic suffragist
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in Catholic magazines in 1911-12. Day in offered his service as a chaplain days before the outbreak of
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and served in
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,
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, Macedonia, and
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. He was decorated with the Serbian White Eagle and was awarded the
Military Cross The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level (second-level until 1993) military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) Other ranks (UK), other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and formerly awarded to officers of other Commonwealth of ...
.Hoehn (1948), p. 187.


Works

* (1908). ''Socialism and the Catholic Church.'' * (1912). ''Marriage, Divorce and Morality.'' * (1914). ''Catholic Democracy, Individualism and Socialism'' (with a preface by
Cardinal Bourne Francis Alphonsus Bourne (1861–1935) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the fourth Archbishop of Westminster from 1903 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1911. Biography Early life Francis ...
). * (1922). ''A Cavalry Chaplain'' (with an introduction by Sir W. E. Peyton). * (1924). ''The New Morality: A Candid Criticism.'' * (1927). ''The Love Story of the Little Flower.'' * (1930). ''Macedonian Memories'' (with a preface by Sir George F. Milne). * (1937). ''On the Troopship to India.'' * (1937). ''An Army Chaplain's War Memories.''


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Jesuit Chaplains of 1914
{{DEFAULTSORT:Day, Henry 1865 births 1951 deaths British religious writers British Roman Catholic writers 19th-century British Roman Catholic priests 20th-century British Roman Catholic priests Recipients of the Military Cross British male non-fiction writers