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

16 April

Benedict Joseph Labre
(1748–1783)
Miracle Worker, Visionary
Bernadette Soubirous
(1844–1879)
Visionary
Drogo of Sebourg
(1105–1185)
Pilgrim
Gioacchino da Siena
(1258–1305)
Lay Brother
Isabella Gilmore
(1842–1923)
Deaconess, Nurse, Widow
Martyrs of Zaragoza
(304)
Martyrs
Padarn
(c. 550)
Abbot-Bishop, Evangeliser, First Bishop

…it is often easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

American politician and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-1965)

Speech to the American Legion convention, New York City (27 August 1952)