Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
“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

2 April

Abundius
(469)
Bishop
Francis of Paola
(1416–1507)
Founder, Friar, Hermit
Pedro Calungsod
(1654–1672)
Catechist, Martyr, Missionary
Urban
(327–c. 390)
Bishop
Vilmos Apor de Altorja
(1892–1945)
Bishop

I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

English playwright, novelist, and short story writer

The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930)