Person DS/UK/995 Beattie; Michael (1936-2023); Jesuit Priest Beattie Michael 1936-2023 Jesuit Priest Male Born 31 May 1936. Entered the English Province of the Society of Jesus 12 November 1954. Died 7 January 2023.

Michael was born in Lytham in Lancashire on 31st May 1936, and educated at Mount St Mary’s College in Sheffield. He joined the novitiate at Harlaxton at the age of 18, and made a year’s juniorate in Manresa Roehampton immediately after taking first vows. Between 1957 and 1960 he studied for a licentiate in philosophy at Heythrop in Oxfordshire. After a year of special studies in modern languages at Campion Hall in Oxford, he made his regency at Mount St Mary’s teaching French. In 1964 he returned to Heythrop for theology, and was ordained in Sheffield in 1967. A fourth year of theology was followed by tertianship at St Beuno’s under Paul Kennedy. Between 1969 and 1972 he was a member of the parish staff at Sacred Heart Wimbledon, then moved to St George’s Worcester as Superior and parish priest. In 1975 he became Rector and parish priest at the Sacred Heart in Wimbledon, and next, after a sabbatical in Rome and the United States, moved to the Sacred Heart in Edinburgh as parish priest in 1983. While there, in 1986, Michael became a member of the Province vocations’ promotion team. From 1991 he served as parish priest at Farm Street in London for seven years, becoming Superior of the community in 1993. He was appointed Superior and parish priest at Corpus Christi, Boscombe, in 1998, moving to Mount St Mary’s as Director of the Apostleship of Prayer eight years later. He also worked as Spiritual Father there, and remained at the Mount until his death. Michael Beattie died around 12.30am last night, Saturday 7th January, in Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Members of the Mount St Mary’s staff were with him, and the Provincial and Michael Holman, as well as family members, had visited him on in recent days. He had been suffering from pneumonia after a fall on 4th January. He was 86 years old, in the 69th year of religious life. The requiem Mass was celebrated in the chapel at Mount St Mary’s on Wednesday 25th January at 1pm. Member of the British Province of the Society of Jesus Paul Nicholson SJ email to Province on Fr Beattie's death. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes MAllen 21/11/2017 CURIA\RSomerset 30/01/2023 2db44d7b-ca59-467e-b01f-fa48613aec42