Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma
Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma
“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

17 April

Giacomo da Cerqueto
(1285–1366)
Friar, Hermit, Priest
Kateri Tekakwitha
(1656–1680)
Virgin
Robert de Turlande
(1087)
Priest
Wandregisel
(c. 605–668)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

English historian and Member of Parliament

Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon (1896)