Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
“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

7 November

Engelbert II of Berg
(C. 1185–1225)
Archbishop, Martyr
Florentius
(c. 693)
Bishop
Herculanus
(549)
Bishop, Martyr
Jacinto Castañeda
(1743–1773)
Martyr, Missionary
Petrus Wu Guosheng
(1768–1814)
Martyr
Willibrord
(c. 658–739)
Founding Bishop, Missionary

On the Boulevard des Batignolles last Sunday night was a bicyclist who (walking) turned three times to look at me, then vanished. For my part this was a love I will never forget. Unhad love is sweeter.

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

The Paris Diary (1966)