Henry Day (priest)
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Henry Cyril Day, S.J. (29 May 1865 – 23 January 1951) was a British Catholic priest and author.
He was educated at Beaumont College, in Old Windsor, Berkshire. From there he entered the Society of Jesus in 1884 and was ordained in 1894.[1] Day was opposed to women's suffrage and was criticised vehemently by Welsh Catholic suffragist Alice Abadam in Catholic magazines in 1911-12.[2]
Day in offered his service as a chaplain days before the outbreak of World War I[3] and served in Egypt, Gallipoli, Macedonia, and France.
He was decorated with the Serbian White Eagle and was awarded the Military Cross.[4]
