Hôtel Groslot, Orléans
Hôtel Groslot, 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

10 July

Amalburga
(690)
Matron, Nun
Carmelo Bolta Bañuls
(1803–1860)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Engelbert Kolland
(1827–1860)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Francisco Pinazo Peñalver
(1802–1860)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Fransīs Masābkī
(1860)
Layperson, Martyr
Juan Jacobo Fernández y Fernández
(1808–1860)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Manuel Ruiz López
(1804–1860)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Nicanor Ascanio de Soria
(1814–1860)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Nicolás María Alberca Torres
(1830–1860)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Pedro Soler Méndez
(1827–1860)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Rūfayīl Masābkī
(1860)
Layperson, Martyr
’Abd-al-Mu’tī Masābkī
(1860)
Layperson, Martyr

Longing at once to be guiltless and guilty, passive and active, ravished in flesh and dominating in mind, I simply never get laid.

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

“Paris in the Spring”—Setting The Tone: Essays and a Diary (1984)