What was he doing that was so exhausting that he died from it?
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Msgr Benson was a very eloquent preacher. (In those days, before films, TV, etc, preaching was a much bigger thing) He attracted huge "audiences" and made a lot of converts through his preaching, plus raising a lot of money for Catholic causes. He was a sort of preaching star. Thus he was invited to go on big preaching tours. He preached all over Britain. But the big things were his American preaching tours. These were really huge! But he wasn´t a strong man physically and was often ill. In 1914, he was severely ill and was just beginning to recover when he was asked to go to America to preach. His doctors advised against it. But he insisted that it was his vocation to save souls through his preaching. So he went on a extremely tough schedule which caused him to collapse. He went back to England and died soon after.