Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma
Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma
“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 August

Abraham of Smolensk
(1150/1172–c. 1222)
Monk
Bernardo Tolomei
(1272–1348)
Founder, Monk
Brunon Zembol
(1905–1942)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Joseph Vien Dinh Dang
(1787–1838)
Martyr, Priest
Pius X
(1835–1914)
Pope

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

Third President of the United States, statesman, political philosopher, architect, archaeologist, author, and inventor

letter to James Madison, Paris (30 January 1787)