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

2 February

Columban of Ghent
(959)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Hermit
Cornelius the Centurion
(1st cent.)
Bishop, Hieromartyr (Ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας / Священному́ченик)
Jean-Théophane Vénard
(1829–1861)
Martyr, Missionary, Priest
Jeanne de Lestonnac
(1556–1640)
Founder, Nun
Laurence of Canterbury
(619)
Archbishop
Martyrs of Ebsdorf
(880)
Martyrs

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Kingsley Amis (1922–1995)

English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher

said of Roger Micheldene—One Fat Englishman (1963)