Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma
Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma
“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

26 April

Aldobrandesca da Siena
(1249–1309)
Widow
Anacletus
(c. 25–c. 89)
Martyr, Pope
Franca da Vitalta
(1175–1218)
Abbess / ἡγουμένη
Giovanni Battista Piamarta
(1841–1913)
Catechist, Founder, Missionary, Priest
Marcellinus
(c. 250–304)
Martyr, Pope
Stanislaw Kubista
(1898–1940)
Martyr, Priest
Władysław Goral
(1898–1945)
Bishop, Martyr

Then, suddenly, when Ben could hardly see, he saw clearly. He saw clearly that you couldn’t have impossible things, however much you wanted them. He saw that if you didn’t have the possible things, the you had nothing.

Philippa Pearce (1920–2006)

English children’s author

A Dog So Small (1962)