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Illinois, and pastor of St. Joseph’s parish outside Quincy, Illinois,
where his mother and father first began to live with him as house-
keeper and gardener.
From 1941-1945, he had served as a much-decorated Chaplain
with the United States 5th Army. The Associated Press as well as
TIME magazine, April 2, 1945, page 27, published a wire-pho-
tograph of Father Day saying mass on the front lines in Belgium
during the Battle of the Bulge. A fictional account of his death
appears in the collection of short stories written by Jack Fritscher,
Sweet Embraceable You: Coffee-House Stories.
He is buried in Springfield, Illinois, next to his mother and
father, near President Lincoln’s tomb.

TIME, April 2, 1945