Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre (H. Lefébvre)
Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre (H. Lefébvre)
“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

16 October

Anicet Kopliński
(1875–1941)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
Bertrand
(1123)
Bishop
Cera
(6th cent.)
Abbess / ἡγουμένη
Colman of Kilroot
(6th cent.)
Abbot-Bishop
Eliphius
(362)
Bishop, Martyr
Galderic
(c. 820–900)
Confessor, Layperson
Gall
(c. 550 – c. 645)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Gerard Majella
(1725–1755)
Lay Brother
Hedwig of Silesia
(1174–1243)
Nun, Widow
Hugh Latimer
(1487–1555)
Bishop, Martyr
Józef Jankowski
(1910–1941)
Martyr, Priest
Margaret Mary Alacoque
(1647–1690)
Mystic, Nun, Visionary
Marguerite d’Youville
(1701–1771)
Founder, Nun, Widow
Nicholas Ridley
(c. 1500–1555)
Bishop, Martyr
Thomas Cramner
(1489–1556)
Bishop, Martyr, Reformer, Theologian

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain (1835–1910)

American humourist, satirist, lecturer and writer

as quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine—Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)