Place du Martroi, Orléans
Place du Martroi, 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

5 July

Anthony Maria Zaccaria
(1502–1539)
Confessor, Founder, Priest
Edward Cheevers
(1581)
Martyr
Matthew Lambert
(1581)
Martyr
Patrick Cavanagh
(1581)
Martyr
Robert Meyler
(1581)
Martyr
Zoe of Roma
(c. 286)
Martyr

[On the most beautiful words in the English language] The ones I like…are “cheque” and “enclosed.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

American writer and poet

as quoted in—N.Y. Herald Tribune (12 December 1932)