Hôtel Groslot, Orléans
Hôtel Groslot, 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

17 July

Alexandra Feodorovna
(1872–1918)
Martyr
Alexei Nikolaevich
(1904–1918)
Martyr
Alexius of Rome
(4th cent.–5th cent.)
Confessor
Clement of Ohrid
(c. 830 – 916)
Bishop
Leo IV
(c. 790–855)
Pope
Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
(1899–1918)
Martyr
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
(1895–1918)
Martyr
Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
(1897–1918)
Martyr
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
(1868–1918)
Martyr
Yevgeny Sergeyevich Botkin
(1865–1918)
Martyr

During that initial visit to Alice Toklas, I saw on her walls a pair of Picassos unknown to me. When I remarked on their unusual beauty, Miss Toklas replied, “Yes, Gertrude always used to say: if the house were on fire and I could only take one picture, it would be those two.”

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

The Later Diaries (1974)