Hôtel Groslot, Orléans
Hôtel Groslot, 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

19 October

Frideswide
(c. 650–727)
Nun
Henry Martyn
(1781–1812)
Biblical translator, Missionary, Priest
Isaac Jogues
(1607–1646)
Martyr, Missionary, Priest
Jean de Brébeuf
(1593–1649)
Martyr, Missionary, Priest
John of Rila
(c. 876–946)
Hermit
North American Martyrs
(1642–1649)
8 Jesuit Missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons
Paul of the Cross
(1694–1775)
Confessor, Founder, Mystic, Priest
Peter of Alcántara
(1499–1562)
Friar, Mystic

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rules.

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)

English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer

“White Queen”—Through the Looking Glass–and What Alice Found There (1871)