Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre (H. Lefébvre)
Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre (H. Lefébvre)
“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

18 July

Arnulf
(c. 582–c. 645)
Bishop
Bartolomé de las Casas
(1484–1566)
Bishop, Friar, Priest, Social Reformer
Bruno di Segni
(c. 1045–1123)
Bishop
Elizabeth Catherine Ferard
(1825–1883)
Deaconess, Founder
Frederick I
(c. 780–838)
Bishop, Martyr
Szymon of Lipnica
(c. 1437–1482)
Friar

If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself and her family ridiculous.

Jane Austin (1775–1817)

English novelist

Pride and Prejudice (1813)