Fr. Joseph I. Dirvin, CM Born in Germantown, Pa., he graduated from St. Joseph's College in Princeton, N.J., and was ordained in Philadelphia in 1943. He took a variety of assignments before earning a master's degree at St. John's in 1956. He was the author of several books and served as editor in chief of the 15-volume "Writings of St. Vincent DePaul, French Saint and Social Reformer (1580-1660)." Among his biographies were "St. Catherine Laboure of the Miraculous Medal" (Farrar, Straus, 1958) and "Louise de Marillac" with an introduction by Terrence Cardinal Cooke (Farrar, 1970).