In @GiveUsThisDayLP I enjoy writing about some of the "everyday saints" I have been privileged to know, such as Stanley Vishnewski (d 11/14/79), longtime Catholic Worker--stalwart storyteller, guest master, jester--whom Dorothy called her "Knight for a Day."

Nov 14, 2022 · 1:40 PM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @GiveUsThisDayLP
Enjoyed reading your piece on Stanley in GUTD a few minutes ago. It seems your enthusiasm for him is exceeded only by his for Catholic Worker!
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Thanks! I wrote his obituary in 1979 for @NCRonline
Replying to @RobertEllsberg @GiveUsThisDayLP
Somehow I misremembered that I'd met him. An old timer showed up at Maryhouse in the mid-90s, Carmen asked him about his interview with Ezra Pound in St Elizabeth's, and I thought that was a Stanley story.
Replying to @RobertEllsberg @GiveUsThisDayLP
Oh, I love this. Last fall, Brian from Strangers and Guests told me the story of how Stanley had engineered his (Brian's) and Betsy's eventual marriage-- personalism and enthusiasm indeed!
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @GiveUsThisDayLP
On a pilgrimage with the late Ann O'Connor and still alive Peter King of Unity Kitchen Community of the Catholic Worker visited Stanley's and Peter Maurin's graves in Queens and took them to Dorothy Day's in Staten Island. As for Ann -it was a Saint visiting other Saints.