St. Vincent Ferrer is the Catholic church on 66th Street that Andy Warhol identifies as his church. In his diary, it appears both as a place he goes to worship and as an institution whose former social appeal has given way to emptiness and concern about its future.

Setting and Attendance

Warhol records getting up early and going to church on a Sunday. In a separate entry, he identifies St. Vincent Ferrer as the church on 66th Street that he attends, connecting the diary’s account of Sunday worship with this specific location.

Decline and Efforts to Save the Church

Warhol reports that Mrs. Rupert Murdoch wrote to him about saving St. Vincent Ferrer. He describes it as once the chic Catholic church, but says it is now always empty and in danger because people are not attending. The contrast between its former fashionable standing and its present lack of congregants makes the church’s social decline, as well as the threat to its continued life, part of its significance in the diary.