Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Gerald Vann

Born: August 24, 1906
Died: July 14, 1963 (aged 56)
Bio: Gerald Vann, O.P. was a British Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. He was born in St Mary Cray, Kent. He joined the Dominican Order in 1923 and was ordained a priest in 1929.
Known for:
- The divine pity (1945)
- The Devil: And how to Resist Him
- The Pain of Christ and the Sorrow of God (1947)