Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal
Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal
“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

11 May

Anthimus of Rome
(303)
Martyr, Priest
Francis de Geronimo
(1642–1716)
Missionary, Priest
Ignatius of Laconi
(1701–1781)
Lay Brother
Maria Magdalena Jahn
(1916–1945)
Martyr, Nun, Nurse
Rastislav of Moravia
(870)
Confessor

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain (1835–1910)

American humourist, satirist, lecturer and writer

as quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine—Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)