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

4 October

Francis of Assisi
(1181–1226)
Founder, Friar, Mystic, Stigmatist
Petronius
(c. 450)
Bishop

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgement.

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

American writer and poet

“But the One on the Right”—New Yorker (1929)