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

21 June

Alban of Mainz
(5th cent.)
Martyr, Missionary, Priest
Aloysius Gonzaga
(1568–1591)
Novice
John Rigby
(1570–1600)
Martyr
Lazarus of Bethany
(c. 3–c. 63)
Tommaso Corsini da Orvieto
(c. 1300–1343)
Lay Brother, Visionary

There but for a typographical error, is the story of my life. [in response to being told that people gathered around a washtub at a Hallowe’en party given by newspaper editor Herbert Byard Swope were ‘ducking for apples’]

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

American writer and poet

as quoted in John Keats—You Might As Well Live (1970)