Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854)
Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854)
“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

29 August

Beheading of John the Baptist
(c. 30)
Martyr, Preacher
Dominik Jędrzejewski
(1886–1942)
Educator, Priest, Prison chaplain
Hypatius
(735)
Bishop, Martyr
Janina Szymkowiak
(1910–1942)
Nun, Virgin
Sabina
(c. 119-126)
Martyr, Matron

If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself and her family ridiculous.

Jane Austin (1775–1817)

English novelist

Pride and Prejudice (1813)