Geoffrey Gneuhs, STM ‘78

Geoffrey Gneuhs, who served as chaplain to Servant of God Dorothy Day, assisted at the Mass celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan on December 8, 2021, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which concluded the diocesan phase for her canonization. The voluminous documents and research will be sent to Rome to the Congregation for the Causes for Saints. The next phase includes the declaration of Day as Venerable and then Beatification (one miracle) and finally Sanctification (one additional miracle).

It was on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1932 at the National Shrine in Washington, DC, that Day, a recent convert, prayed in her words “with tears and anguish,” that God would open up for her a way to use her talents “for my fellow workers, for the poor.”