Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
“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

23 February

Boisil
(664)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Prior
Lazarus Zographos
(867)
Iconographer, Monk
Ludwik Mzyk
(1905–1940)
Martyr, Priest
Polycarp
(c. 69–c. 155)
Bishop, Martyr
Willigis
(c. 940–1011)
Archbishop

I hope to have time to become better and happier….Maybe I’ll need a long time, because I’m slow. I don’t want to say that it’s the best method, but it’s the only one I know and it gives me the feeling that in spite of everything life is not without hope.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)

American actress, model, and sex symbol

interview with Georges Belmont—Marie-Claire (1960)