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

1 June

Annibale Maria di Francia
(1851–1927)
Founder, Priest
Crescentinus
(c. 303)
Martyr
Fortunatus of Spoleto
(4th/5th cent.)
Priest
Justin Martyr
(c. 100–165)
Apologist, Martyr, Theologian
Reverianus of Autun
(273)
Bishop, Martyr
Wigstan, Prince of Mercia
(c. 839/840)
Martyr

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

British author, linguist and lexicographer

as quoted in James Boswell—The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)