Dorothy Day by Patrick Jordan

Author:Patrick Jordan [Jordan, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8146-3999-3
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2002-03-18T05:00:00+00:00

My first statue of the Blessed Mother. Peggy was my roommate in jail in Washington. When we were in the Occoquan workhouse we had adjoining rooms. In the Washington city jail I had the upper berth on one of the upper tiers, and Peggy had the lower. I read the Bible and she wrote a book of poetry—“Poems to My Lovers,” she called it. I also read letters from the boys I was going with at the time, one of them, my most regular correspondent, a United States sailor. It was during the last war. Some years afterward Peggy gave me a little statue of the Blessed Mother which had been brought from Czechoslovakia. It was made of wax, and very delicate, and there was a golden watchspring-like halo around its head, and golden curly hair and a bright blue robe. How I loved that statue! Down in Staten Island in my little shore cottage I kept it on a shelf by the door with a vigil light burning in front of it.

Peggy also was a member of the Communist party at different times, but being an undisciplined creature and an artist I don’t think she was a paid-up member for long.

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