Rt. Rev. Msgr. (BG) James Hugh O'Neill was a US Army Chaplain for twenty-six years, including World War II. He was perhaps best remembered as the Chaplain, then Colonel, who authored the Weather Prayer on December 8, 1944 at Caserne Molifor in Nancy, France, just before the Battle of the Bulge, for Gen. George S Patton, Jr., who at the time, was commanding the Third US Army.