Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
“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

12 July

Azélie-Marie Guérin Martin
(1831–1877)
Layperson
Clemente Ignacio Delgado Cebrián
(1761–1838)
Martyr, Priest
John Gualbert
(c. 985–1073)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Founder
John Jones
(c. 1530–1598)
Friar, Martyr, Priest
John the Iberian
(c. 1002)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Louis Martin
(1823–1894)
Layperson
Paulinus of Antioch
(c. 67)
First Bishop, Martyr
Susana Cobioje Araki
(c. 1594–1628)
Layperson, Martyr
Veronica
(1st cent.)

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist

“When lilacs last by the dooryard bloom’d”—Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865)