Sant Salvador de Cervera
Sant Salvador de Cervera
“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

21 August

Abraham of Smolensk
(1150/1172–c. 1222)
Monk
Bernardo Tolomei
(1272–1348)
Founder, Monk
Brunon Zembol
(1905–1942)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Joseph Vien Dinh Dang
(1787–1838)
Martyr, Priest
Pius X
(1835–1914)
Pope

Then came days of depression, when I huddled in my armchair empty as a burst paper-bag–turning the leaves of The Constant Nymph or The Boy in the Bush, dreaming miserably of the Tirol, of Australia, hating my life, knowing I should never escape, and then comforting myself by ordering a double portion of buttered toast.

Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)

Anglo-American writer

Lions and Shadows (1938)