It has been my practice with my November "Saint of the Day" posts to feature only Canonized Saints or those who have been declared Blessed. However, at the suggestion of my cousin Jill, today I will depart from my usual practice and feature Servant of God Dorothy Day.
Dorothy Day was born in 1897. Her family moved into a tenement flat in Chicago in 1906 because her father was out of work. This began her understanding of how people feel when they fail. Her father was anti-...Catholic, but in Chicago Dorothy met Catholics and formed a positive impression of the Church. As a young women, she moved to New York and worked for socialist publications and worked to change the social order. In 1926, she had a baby with her common law husband. She did not want her daughter to flounder as she had and arranged for her to be baptized in the Catholic Church. Later that year, she was received into the Church herself.
Dorothy Day was born in 1897. Her family moved into a tenement flat in Chicago in 1906 because her father was out of work. This began her understanding of how people feel when they fail. Her father was anti-...Catholic, but in Chicago Dorothy met Catholics and formed a positive impression of the Church. As a young women, she moved to New York and worked for socialist publications and worked to change the social order. In 1926, she had a baby with her common law husband. She did not want her daughter to flounder as she had and arranged for her to be baptized in the Catholic Church. Later that year, she was received into the Church herself.
In the winter of 1932, she traveled to Wash. DC to report on a radical protest called the Hunger March, calling for jobs, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, relief for mothers and children, health care and housing. Although she sympathized with these goals, she was kept on the sidelines by her Catholic Faith as the march was organized by the Communist Party. She prayed to be shown a way to use her talents to serve workers and the poor. She soon met Peter Maurin and together they started the Catholic Worker newspaper and soon after the Catholic Worker Movement.
Long before her death in 1980, Day was considered a saint by many. Her canonization process was started in 1997, the 100th anniversary of her birth.
For more on her life and the Catholic Worker Movement, see http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/ddbiographytext.cfm?Number=72
Long before her death in 1980, Day was considered a saint by many. Her canonization process was started in 1997, the 100th anniversary of her birth.
For more on her life and the Catholic Worker Movement, see http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/ddbiographytext.cfm?Number=72
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