Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854)
Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854)
“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

4 November

Charles Borromeo
(1538–1584)
Archbishop, Cardinal Priest, Confessor
Joannicius the Great
(c. 762–846)
Monk
John of Zedazeni
(c. 580)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Evangeliser, Monk, Preacher

Middle age has its compensations…you feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself. You are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

English playwright, novelist, and short story writer

Vanity Fair (December 1923)