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

3 February

Ansgar
(801–865)
Archbishop
Blaise
(c. 316)
Bishop, Martyr
Caolainn Cráibhtheach
(6th cent.)
Virgin
Claudine Thévenet
(1774–1837)
Founder, Nun, Virgin
Ia
(450)
Evangelist, Martyr, Virgin
Lupicinus of Lyon
(494)
Archbishop
Margaret of England
(1050–1192)
Nun, Pilgrim
Nicholas of Japan
(1836–1912)
Archbishop, Archimandrite (ἀρχιμανδρίτης / Архимандри́т), Bishop, Monk, Priest
Simeon
(106)
Bishop, Martyr
Werburgh
(c. 650–699/700)
Abbess / ἡγουμένη

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination–when it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories

“The Critic as Artist”—Intentions (1891)