May 21st is the Feast Day of Emperor Saint Constantine the Great; Confessor and Equal to the Apostles. Born Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus to a distinguished Greco-Illyrian military family, he started his career as a military tribune and became sole Augustus over the entire Roman Empire. Founder of New Rome (later known as Constantinople), issuer of the Edict of Milan, convener of the First Council of Nicaea, and convert from paganism, patron of converts.

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May 30th is the feast of Saint Joan of Arc, “the Maid of Orléans”: French peasant girl, Catholic mystic, and Virgin-Martyr, falsely convicted of heresy and burned at the stake in Rouen on this day in 1431.

"Hold the cross high, so that I may see it through the flames"