Place du Martroi, Orléans
Place du Martroi, Orléans
“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

6 February

Amandus
(c. 584–c. 679)
Bishop
Dorothea of Caesarea
(c. 311)
Martyr, Virgin
Hildegund
(c. 1130–1188)
Prioress, Widow
Mel
(c. 489)
Bishop
Photios I
(c. 810–c. 893)
Confessor, Patriarch, Spiritual Writer

…and human nature is not conceived to conform to human needs.

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

attributed to James Lord in—The Paris Diary (1966)