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

30 April

Erkenwald of London
(c. 675–693)
Bishop
Faolchú
(724)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo
(1786–1842)
Confessor, Founder, Priest
Marie de l’Incarnation
(1599–1672)
Missionary, Mystic, Nun, Superior, Virgin
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
(1858–1922)
Biblical translator, Missionary, Social Reformer
Pius V
(1504–1572)
Pope
Quirinus of Neuss
(c. 117)
Martyr

We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

English playwright, novelist, and short story writer