Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Juliana Berners
Born: 1388
Bio: Juliana Berners, O.S.B., , English writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, is said to have been prioress of the Priory of St Mary of Sopwell, near St Albans in Hertfordshire.
Known for:
- Book of Saint Albans (1486)
- A Treatise of Fishing with an Angle (1496)