Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d'Orléans
Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d’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

26 February

Alexander
(326)
Patriarch
Paula Montal Fornés de San José de Calasanz
(1799–1889)
Founder, Nun, Virgin
Photini of Samaria
(1st cent.)
Martyr
Victor of Arcis
(7th cent.)
Hermit, Priest

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A might woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries sheWith silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)

American poet

The New Colossus (1883)