Jeanne d'Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
Jeanne d’Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
“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

9 October

Denis
(c. 258)
Bishop, First Bishop, Martyr
Dionysius the Areopagite
(c. 95)
Bishop, First Bishop, Martyr
Domninus of Fidenza
(c. 304)
Martyr
John Henry Newman
(1801–1890)
Apologist, Cardinal Deacon, Deacon, Priest, Spiritual Writer, Theologian
John Twenge
(1320–1379)
Canon regular
Martyrs of Turon
(1934)
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end.

Peter De Vries (1910–1993)

American editor and novelist