Basilique Saint-Denis
Basilique Saint-Denis
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc

Today’s Feast Days

24 May

Charles Wesley
(1707–1788)
Hymnographer, Priest, Spiritual Writer
Joanna
(1st cent.)
John Wesley
(1703–1791)
Abolitionist, Educator, Evangelist, Feminist, Liturgist, Preacher, Priest, Reformer, Spiritual Writer, Theologian
Simeon Stylites the Younger
(521–596/597)
Healer, Miracle Worker

Both were women in love with men who did not exist, and they shared the resigned sadness that comes from too much dreaming and longing.

Mark Helprin (1947– )

American novelist, journalist, and conservative commentator

Winter’s Tale (1983)