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

30 October

Alonso Rodríguez
(1532–1617)
Priest, Widower
Dorothy of Montau
(1347–1394)
Anchoress, Mystic, Nun, Visionary, Widow
Gerard
(1119)
Bishop
Marcellus of Tangier
(c. 250–298)
Martyr
Peter O’Higgins
(1601–1642)
Martyr, Prior
Saturninus of Cagliari
(285–304)
Martyr
Theonistus
(4th cent.–5th cent.)
Martyr

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

American novelist, short story writer and designer

“Vesalius in Zante (1564)”—North American Review (November 1902)