This enduring relevance is especially remarkable given that Divine died of heart failure in March 1988, aged just 42. In an obituary, People magazine hailed him as "the drag queen of the century ...

When audiences heard Divine Grace, in character as Dorothy from TV’s “The Golden Girls,” speak for the first time, there was a uniform response. “The gasps she would get simply from ...

He died on April 2, 2005, the seventh day of the Easter octave that year, at 9:37 p.m. At 8 p.m. that Saturday evening, with the feast of Divine Mercy already begun, the Mass of Divine Mercy ...