St. Joan of Arc
Patron of soldiers and France
1412 - 1431
St. Joan of Arc is the patroness of soldiers and of France. On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class, at the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she heard voices: those of St. Michael, St. Catherine and St. Margaret.
At first the messages were personal and general. Then at last came the crowning order. In May, 1428, her voices "of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret" told Joan to go to the King of France and help him reconquer his kingdom. For at that time the English king was after the throne of France, and the Duke of Burgundy, the chief rival of the French king, was siding with him and gobbling up evermore French territory.
After overcoming opposition from churchmen and courtiers, the seventeen year old girl was given a small army with which she raised the seige of Orleans on May 8, 1429. She then enjoyed a series of spectacular military successes, during which the King was able to enter Rheims and be crowned with her at his side.
In May 1430, as she was attempting to relieve Compiegne, she was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English when Charles and the French did nothing to save her. After months of imprisonment, she was tried at Rouen by a tribunal presided over by the infamous Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, who hoped that the English would help him to become archbishop.
Through her unfamiliarity with the technicalities of theology, Joan was trapped into making a few damaging statements. When she refused to retract the assertion that it was the saints of God who had commanded her to do what she had done, she was condemned to death as a heretic, sorceress, and adulteress, and burned at the stake on May 30, 1431. She was nineteen years old. Some thirty years later, she was exonerated of all guilt and she was ultimately canonized in 1920, making official what the people had known for centuries. Her feast day is May 30.
Joan was canonized in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV.
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st joan of arc is my hero #joanislife
I'm considering saint Joan of Arc as my Confirmation name. I am very drawn to her story and how as a woman, she took charge of an army failing with men. she is an inspiration to all women and girls such as myself. Thank you Saint Joan of Arc. God Bless
Saint Joan of Arc is my Confirmation saint too, but I've never done a project on her. I should have; she is so amazing! Trina, I liked your comment. I am Catholic, but I also agree that Catholics and Protestants should be more united. We're both Christian, why do we have to be so separated? Anyway, go Saint Therese and her patron saint, Joan of Arc!
Thanks for posting this! Very useful--- I'm doing a paper on her for my English class. She definitely challenged the gender roll.
I love St. Joan of Arc!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is such an inspiration. She is 1000000000000000x better, cooler, and prettier than St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
joan of arc is so coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!! Thank you soooooooooooooooooo much
This was honestly VERY useful! i had to do a report for my teacher at 'St. Elizabeth Ann Seton' school and this website made it a breeze! I wonder if this will be help again later in the year?
I have to say a big vinaka vakalevu[thank u in Fijian] to you, St.Joan of Arc. I am so glad that i am named after you as my confirmation name. You have been an inspiration in my life. Thank You. I'l never get tired of knowing more about You.
I love saint Joan of arc! she is my HERO!
Dear st.joan please help all the fallen solders amen
I chose,although I believe she chose me,as my Confirmation Saint,all through my life I have been aware of her presence when I have had difficulties ,she fought for what is right and paid the price with her life. She is a great example to us all..
i have a research paper to do on St. Joan. she is absolutely amazing. and inspiring.
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I love this Saint. I decided to pick her for my confirmation name and I just can't get enough of her. She is so inspirational and courageous and I would like to be like her one day.
she is absolutely awesome saint that i have ever heard and i am so thankful for my parents to give me her name as my name..^_~
The French should've helped her because she did help the French to reclaim the thrown from the English.
st joan is of the hook this website is awesome! im definetly coming back!
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My Dearest Joan of Arc, where do I begin to thank you for the countless blessings and graces the Risen Lord showered me from my early life. My life is a living testimony to your powerful prayers and unfailing intercession from your place in Heaven. I look forward to the future with the confidence of knowing that you are at my side encouraging me to face every obsticle with faith and courage, just as you did in every battle. My Dear Maiden of France, tonight I appeal to you for help to save my close friend from commiting suicide. Let me put this matter in perspective by explaining briefly his background. Timmy was born on Sunday, 4th April 1976, to a Finnish family who arrived in Sydney in 1970 from Finland to start a new life in Australia. Timmy's father was a hopeless alcoholic who drank all his wages in filthy pubs and his mother a sober and hardworking woman struggling to feed her 6 children on a small salary working as a housecleaner for a wealthy but kind old Jewish lady in the affluent Sydney suburb of Elizabeth Bay. Life was far from cozy and each day was a battle to get by on pittance. Timmy was 16 years old when his elder brother, a hopeless heroin addict, talked him into smoking heroin telling Timmy that he won't get addicted because it was same as smoking marijuana. Well, it didn't take long for Timmy to develop a $400 a day heroin habit. Timmy lived like a wild animal for many years and he was even inprisoned for a few years. His family funded his drug treatment and in 2004 he began his new life completely free from heroin. Timmy had a well paid job, played sport and restored classic BMW cars 1962-1965 series with great success, and everything looked rosy and life was fantastic. Timmy met and fell madly in love 13 months ago with a stunning young girl (22 years old) and a heroin addict. Timmy now sleeps on public park benches being frequently assaulted by drunk louts and he's soliciting gold coins from pedestrians and patrons in pubs. My Dear Joan, I beg you to storm Heaven to preven Timmy from commiting suicide as he's already tried twice and both times he was saved by ambulence. May the Risen Lord rescue Timmy from his heroin HELL and restore him to his terrified and torn family. AMEN
I think that this saint is great but I like Saint Rebecca (Rafqa). She was a blind paralytic.
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