Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal
Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal
“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

11 October

Alessandro Sauli
(1534–1592)
Bishop, Priest
Canice
(c. 525–c. 599)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Missionary
Gummarus van Lier
(717–774)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Hermit
John XXIII
(1881–1963)
Pope
Maria Soledad Torres Acosta
(1826–1887)
Founder, Nun
Nicasius, Quirinus, Scubiculus, and Pientia
(c. 285)
Martyrs, Missionaries
Theophanes the Branded
(775–845)
Hymnographer, Metropolitan, Monk

Ni un solo momento, viejo hermoso Walt Whitman, he dejado de ver tu barba llena de mariposas

(Not for a moment, Walt Whitman, lovely old man, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies)

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)

Spanish poet, dramatist, painter, pianist, and composer

“Oda a Walt Whitman”—Poeta en Nueva York (1930; 1940)

“Ode to Walt Whitman”—Poet in New York (1930; 1940)