Place du Martroi, Orléans
Place du Martroi, Orléans
“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

21 October

Hilarion the Great
(c. 291–371)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Karl of Austria
(1887–1922)
Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena
(1874–1949)
Founder, Nun, Virgin
Munna
(c. 635)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Priest
Ursula
(c. 383)
Martyr, Virgin
Wendelin of Trier
(c. 554–c. 617)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Hermit, Pilgrim

She had consumption and was full of the wisdom of those who are slowly dying.

Mark Helprin (1947– )

American novelist, journalist, and conservative commentator

Winter’s Tale (1983)