Jeanne d'Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
Jeanne d’Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
“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

19 August

Agapius
(c. 306)
Martyr
Ezequiel Moreno y Diaz
(1848–1906)
Bishop, Missionary, Monk
John Eudes
(1601–1680)
Founder, Priest
Louis of Toulouse
(1274–1297)
Bishop, Friar
Magnus of Anagni
(251)
Bishop, Martyr
Maucteus
(535)
Bishop

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one’s living so as not to be a parasite and loving one’s neighbour.

W.H. Auden (1907–1973)

Anglo-American poet

as quoted in Charles Osborne—W.H. Auden: the Life of a Poet (1979)