Father Donald Louis Gelpi, S.J., a member of the New Orleans Province, died on Friday, May 6, 2011 in St. Louis, Missouri, following a long illness. All services will be in St. Louis. Wake services will be held on Monday, May 9, at St. Francis Xavier College Church followed by the Funeral Mass that evening. Burial will be on Tuesday, May 10 at Calvary Cemetery.
Fr. Gelpi was a graduate of St. Louis University, St. Mary’s College (Kans.), and Fordham University, where he received his Ph.D. His dissertation focused on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s notion of religious experience. He taught at...
