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

8 April

Amantius of Como
(448)
Third Bishop
August Czartoryski
(1858–1893)
Priest
Julie Billiart
(1751–1816)
Founder, Nun
Walter of Pontoise
(c. 1030–c. 1099)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles (1888–1959)

U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959)