Jeanne d'Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
Jeanne d’Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
“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 April

Benedict Joseph Labre
(1748–1783)
Miracle Worker, Visionary
Bernadette Soubirous
(1844–1879)
Visionary
Drogo of Sebourg
(1105–1185)
Pilgrim
Gioacchino da Siena
(1258–1305)
Lay Brother
Isabella Gilmore
(1842–1923)
Deaconess, Nurse, Widow
Martyrs of Zaragoza
(304)
Martyrs
Padarn
(c. 550)
Abbot-Bishop, Evangeliser, First Bishop

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist

Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954)