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

14 September

Crescentius of Rome
(c. 292–c. 303)
Martyr
Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse
(1750–1815)
Bishop, Martyr, Vicar Apostolic
Notburga von Rattenberg
(c. 1265 – 1313)
Virgin

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy (1884–1949)

American humourist and journalist

“Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse: Alexander the Great”—The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950)