Place du Martroi, Orléans
Place du Martroi, Orléans
“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

14 April

Anthony of Vilnius
(1347)
Martyr, Missionary
Benedict the Bridge-Builder
(c. 1163–1184)
Founder, Miracle Worker, Visionary
Eustathius of Vilnius
(1347)
Martyr, Missionary
John of Vilnius
(1347)
Martyr, Missionary
Lidwina of Schiedam
(1380–1433)
Visionary
Pedro González Telmo
(1190–1246)
Priest

I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

English playwright, novelist, and short story writer

The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930)