Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
“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

7 September

Clodoald
(522–c. 560)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Hermit
Giovanni da Lodi
(1025–1106)
Bishop, Monk, Prior
Regina
(c. 296)
Martyr, Virgin

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Graham Green (1904–1991)

English novelist, playwright, short story writer, travel writer and critic

The Third Man (1949)