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3 days ago · Joan of Arc: Visionary & Child. The story of Jeanne d’Arc (anglicized as Joan of Arc) is a complicated one. We commemorate her as a Visionary, as she quite literally relied on the visions and voices she experienced early in her life to propel her military campaigns to defeat the English who claimed France. Reading her story with modern eyes ...
3 days ago · 1. She was a young French peasant born in 1412. 2. Joan of Arc was not a knight or a trained soldier, and she could not read or write. She didn’t even know how to wield a sword before she began her mission! 3. At one point, she took the name “Jehanne la Pucelle,” meaning "Joan the Maid," claiming she did not know her last name.
2 days ago · “Joan of Arc did not know how to read or write, but the depths of her soul can be known thanks to two sources of exceptional historical value: the two Trials that concern her,” Benedict XVI said in 2011. The first, the Trial of Condemnation, contains the transcript of the interrogations she endured in her final months.
4 days ago · For the original article by Catholic News Agency (CNA), click here. Today is the feast of St. Joan of Arc, the patroness of France. Joan was born to a peasant family in Champagne, France in the early 15th century. From a young age she heard the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret speaking to her.
3 days ago · On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen (roo-AHN’), France. On this date: In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln. In 1935, Babe Ruth played in his last major ...
3 days ago · The Smiths lyrics? — or a dimly remembered World History class or two. But Saint Joan of Arc (or Sainte Jeanne d'Arc in her native French), who was formally canonized in her beloved Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XV in 1920, is to this day a national heroine of France. During the Middle Ages, she was an illiterate peasant girl who, as a ...
4 days ago · Joan of Arc, or, as she is known in French, Jeanne d’Arc, was born a peasant in the village of Domrémy, France, circa 1412. At around age 13, Joan began hearing voices and experiencing divine visions from God and his angels, including Saint Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine. These visions aligned with a French prophecy claiming ...
