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
9 October
Abraham the Patriarch
(c. 1700 BC)
John Henry Newman
(1801–1890)
Apologist, Cardinal Deacon, Deacon, Priest, Spiritual Writer, Theologian
Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end.
Peter De Vries (1910–1993)
American editor and novelist


