Basilique Saint-Denis
Basilique Saint-Denis
“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

16 October

Anicet Kopliński
(1875–1941)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Bertrand
(1123)
Bishop
Cera
(6th cent.)
Abbess / ἡγουμένη
Colman of Kilroot
(6th cent.)
Abbot-Bishop
Eliphius
(362)
Bishop, Martyr
Galderic
(c. 820–900)
Confessor, Layperson
Gall
(c. 550 – c. 645)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Gerard Majella
(1725–1755)
Lay Brother
Hedwig of Silesia
(1174–1243)
Nun, Widow
Hugh Latimer
(1487–1555)
Bishop, Martyr
Józef Jankowski
(1910–1941)
Martyr, Priest
Margaret Mary Alacoque
(1647–1690)
Mystic, Nun, Visionary
Marguerite d’Youville
(1701–1771)
Founder, Nun, Widow
Nicholas Ridley
(c. 1500–1555)
Bishop, Martyr
Thomas Cramner
(1489–1556)
Bishop, Martyr, Reformer, Theologian

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana (1863–1952)

Philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist

“Normal Madness”—Dialogues in Limbo (1925)