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

12 January

Antonio Maria Pucci
(1819–1892)
Priest
Benedict Biscop
(c. 628– 690)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Bernardo de Corleone
(1605–1667)
Friar
Marguerite Bourgeoys
(1620–1700)
Founder, Nun

I was disappointed with Niagara. Most people must be disappointed with Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest if not the keenest disappointments in American married life.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories

“Oscar Wilde: the Last Phase”—Holbrook Jackson—The Eighteen Nineties (1913)