Basilique Saint-Denis
Basilique Saint-Denis
“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

29 December

Ailerán the Wise
(665/668)
Hagiographer, Monk
Ebrulf of Ouche
(517–596)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Hermit
Marcellus the Righteous
(c. 485)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Monk
Thomas Becket
(1118–1170)
Archbishop, Martyr
Trophimus
(c. 280)
First Bishop

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A might woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries sheWith silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)

American poet

The New Colossus (1883)