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Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Who they were
Dorothy May Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
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The miracles
A cause for canonisation has been opened, which is what Servant of God means. Heroic virtue has not yet been declared and no miracle has been examined.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
Dorothy Day is named a Servant of God; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: The Dorothy Day Guild: the cause of Dorothy Day.
- Archdiocese of New York — Cardinal Dolan Announces New Stage in Dorothy Day Canonization Process — The archdiocese that opened her cause reports on the canonical inquiry into the Servant of God Dorothy Day (1897-1980); she was given that title in 2000 and the diocesan phase closed in December 2021.
- Wikidata Q150281 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Dorothy Day (CC BY-SA)
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