Jeanne d'Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
Jeanne d’Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
“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

13 January

Conan
(648)
Bishop, Missionary
Emil Szramek
(1887–1942)
Canon of the Cathedral Chapter, Educator, Martyr, Priest
George Fox
(1624–1691)
Healer, Preacher, Reformer
Hilary of Poitiers
(c. 310–c. 367)
Bishop
Kentigern
(c. 518–603)
Bishop
Remigius
(c. 438–533)
Bishop, Confessor

“She says she has something she wants to tell me.””It can’t be her age,” she said.He smiled without joy. “She says it’s too much to say over the wire,” he said.”Then it may be her age,” she said. “She’s afraid it might sound like her telephone number.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

American writer and poet

“Dusk Before Fireworks” (1932)—The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944)