Daniel Berrigan, a Catholic priest and peace activist who was imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 94, Sky News reported Sunday.

Berrigan died on Saturday at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New York City after a "long illness", according to Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province.

Berrigan and his younger brother, the Reverend Philip Berrigan, emerged as leaders of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s.

Daniel Berrigan moved into a Jesuit residence in Manhattan in 1975.

His writings include Prison Poems, published in 1973; We Die Before We Live: Talking with the Very Ill, a 1980 book based on his experiences working in a cancer ward; and his autobiography, To Dwell in Peace, published in 1987.

Source: MENA