Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
“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 January

Albéric de Cîteaux
(1109)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Co-Founder, Monk, Priest, Prior
Michał Kozal
(1893–1943)
Bishop, Martyr
Paula of Rome
(347–404)
Abbess / ἡγουμένη, Widow
Robert of Molesme
(1028–1111)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Co-Founder
Stephen Harding
(c. 1050–1134)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Co-Founder
Timothy
(c. 30– c. 80/97)
Bishop, Martyr, Missionary
Titus
(c. 96/107)
First Bishop

A politician is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956)

American journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker

as quoted in—A New Dictionary of Quotations (1942)