What caused Dorothy Day to stand out in her time, as it does still, is the way her spiritual life was expressed not only in her daily prayer but in her response to the needs of her neighbors, to the poor and to the demands of history.
The coffin of St. Teresa of Ávila was opened on Aug. 28 in the presence of a scientific medical team and members of the ecclesiastical court, and her body has been found incorrupt. The last time it was opened was 110 years ago.