All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together, happily united (Saint Marguerite D’Youville, +1771)
Day: October 16, 2019
Four Saints in One
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), a lovely French Canadian mademoiselle, who married young to a dissolute man, Francois D’Youville, a dissipated bootlegger who sold liquor to the easily-addicted Natives, and would disappear for long periods. He did not live long, but[…]