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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
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- Wikidata Q150281 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Dorothy Day (CC BY-SA)
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