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

20 April

Agnes of Montepulciano
(1268–1317)
Prioress
Anicetus
(c. 92–166)
Martyr, Pope
Caedwalla, King of Wessex
(c. 659–689)
Pilgrim
John Payne
(c. 1532–1582)
Martyr, Priest
Simon Rinalducci of Todi
(c. 1260–1322)
Friar, Miracle Worker, Preacher

…in spite of ten European years, [he] had lost none of that extreme sensitiveness to his neighbour’s opinion which is one of the characteristics of an enlightened democracy.

Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972)

Scottish writer

Vestal Fire (1927)