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

20 June

Adalbert of Magdeburg
(c. 910–981)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, First Archbishop
Alban
(c. 209/250/303)
Martyr
Conn O’Rourke
(c. 1549–1579)
Friar, Martyr
Dermot O’Hurley
(c. 1530–1584)
Archbishop, Martyr
Dominick Collins
(c. 1566–1602)
Lay Brother, Martyr
Donough MacCready
(1608)
Martyr, Priest
Francis Taylor
(c. 1550–1621)
Martyr
John Kearney
(1619–1653)
Friar
Margaret Ball
(c. 1515–1584)
Martyr, Widow
Maurice MacEnraghty
(c. 1500–1585)
Martyr, Priest
Patrick O’Healy
(1579)
Bishop, Martyr
Richard Creagh
(1523–1586)
Archbishop, Martyr
Silverius
(c. 480–537)
Martyr, Pope
Terence Albert O’Brien
(1601–1651)
Bishop

No good deed goes unpunished.

Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)

American editor, playwright, social activist, politician, journalist, and diplomat

as quoted in Letitia Baldrige—Roman Candle (1956)