French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin—theologian, mystic, scientist—once noted, “I should like to die on the day of the Resurrection.” So it happened. He died of a heart attack in New York on April 10, 1955, Easter Sunday.
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His tomb is in the Jesuit cemetery on the grounds of what is now, believe it or not, the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY (originally a Jesuit seminary). His grave is indistinguishable from those of his confreres. I took the photo attached to my tweet.