Hôtel Groslot, Orléans
Hôtel Groslot, 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

20 September

103 Martyrs of Korea
(1839, 1846, and 1867)
Martyrs
Agapetus I
(c. 490–536)
Pope
Andrew Kim Taegon
(1821–1846)
Martyr, Priest
Eustace
(118)
Martyr
John Coleridge Patteson
(1827–1871)
Bishop, Martyr, Missionary
John Houghton
(1487–1535)
Martyr, Monk, Prior
José María de Yermo y Parres
(1851–1904)
Founder, Priest
Paul Chong Hasang
(1795–1839)
Martyr, Priest

“Is not love,” said he, “the great mystery of nature, the secret principle of life, the universal bond of sympathy?” “A fig’s end!” cried the parrot, interruputing him; “prithee where has thou learned this sentimental jargon? Trust me, love is quite out of vogue; one never years of it in the company of wits and people of refinement.”

Washington Irving (1783–1859)

American author

“Legend of Prince Ahmed al Kamel–or–The Pilgrim of Love”—Tales of the Alhambra (1829)