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

27 January

Angela Merici
(1474–1540)
Founder, Nun, Virgin
Devota
(c. 303)
Martyr, Virgin
Enric d’Osso i Cervelló
(1840–1896)
Catechist, Founder, Priest
John Maria Muzeyi
(c. 1851–1887)
Martyr
Vitalian
(c. 600–672)
Pope

There but for a typographical error, is the story of my life. [in response to being told that people gathered around a washtub at a Hallowe’en party given by newspaper editor Herbert Byard Swope were ‘ducking for apples’]

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

American writer and poet

as quoted in John Keats—You Might As Well Live (1970)