Venerable Edward Mico, SJ Born: circa 1647 Died: 24 November 1678 Edward Mico was born in Essex, England of Catholic parents. At the age of about fifteen, he enrolled at the English College in Saint-Omer, Flanders and about four years later, he went to the English College in Rome. There Edward became acquainted with the Jesuits and later managed to get the permission of the Jesuit Father General to enter the Society. He interrupted his course in philosophy and left Rome to join the English Jesuit novitiate at Watten, Flanders on March 28, 1650. After his noviceship training, Edward went to Liege for his philosophical studies and later, theology. He was ordained on March 31, 1657. After that he taught for a while at Saint-Omer and may have gone to the English mission as early as 1661. He carried out his priestly ministry in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset and Sussex and served under three successive provincials during the last six years of his live. Fr Mico accompanied Fr Thomas Whit...