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3 days ago · Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc ( French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
5 days ago · Born: 6 January c. 1412, Domrémy, France. Died: May 30, 1431, Rouen, France. Canonized: May 16, 1920, St. Peter's Basilica, Rome by Pope Benedict XV. Patron Saint of: France; martyrs; captives; militants; people ridiculed for their piety; prisoners; soldiers; Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service; Women's Army Corps. Savior of France ...
4 days ago · At trial, Joan was condemned to death for heresy, witchcraft, and adultery. On May 30, 1431, at the age of 19, she was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. Thirty years after her death, St. Joan’s case was retried, and she was exonerated. In 1920, Pope Benedict XV canonized her. St. Joan is the patroness of France, captives, soldiers, and ...
3 days ago · Merovingian dynasty. Chlotar III (died March 10/11, 673) was a Merovingian king of Neustria and Burgundy, who succeeded his father, Clovis II, in 657. After the retirement of his mother, Balthild, to a monastery in 664 or 665, he came—and remained—under the domination of the Neustrian mayor of the palace, Ebroin.
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5 days ago · From a young age she heard the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret speaking to her. Then, in 1428, when she was 13 years old, she received a vision telling her to go to the King of France and help him reconquer his kingdom from the invading forces of England and Burgundy.
4 days ago · 30 May AD 2024. Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her.
5 days ago · The life of St. Joan of Arc. On May 29, 2024. Bishop Donald J. Hying. The Church celebrates the optional memorial of St. Joan of Arc on May 30, the day in 1431 when she was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, as a heretic and a witch. Her life, accomplishments, and character have always interested me greatly and I count her as one of my ...
