27 March

Born in 1879 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourger-American painter and photographer.

Above: Pastoral - Moonlight (1907)

Also, born in in 1923, Japanese novelist Shūsaku Endō.

“Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.”

-Fr. Rodrigues in Endō‘s 1966 novel, Silence.