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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc----May 30
Patroness of France and the Military
Like the Gods about whom Homer sang, the Saints in Heaven have been known to take a partisan interest in mortal politics----as when, in 1426 (the eighty ninth year of the hundred years' War) , Saints Catherine, Margaret and Michael decided to assist the Valois party of Charles of Orleans against his rivals the Burgundians and their English Allies.
Patroness of France and the Military
Like the Gods about whom Homer sang, the Saints in Heaven have been known to take a partisan interest in mortal politics----as when, in 1426 (the eighty ninth year of the hundred years' War) , Saints Catherine, Margaret and Michael decided to assist the Valois party of Charles of Orleans against his rivals the Burgundians and their English Allies.
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Saint Joan of Arc Burned as a Witch and Herbalist
She raised the seige of Orleans and was wounded by an arrow in the breast. The dauphin was crowned. Jeanne attacked Paris and was wounded by an arrow in the thigh. Charles dallied at court. She was captured at Campiegne by the Burgundians, and sold to the English. Her king expressed no interest in her plight, attempting neither ransom nor rescue. Because she would not deny her Saints, inquisitors found her guilty of heresy, and turned her over to the civil authorities. Because she had opposed their occupation of her country, the English concluded she was a witch. She was burned at the stake on May 30 1431. She was almost 19 years old. Over the centuries, such cantankerous agnostics as Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw have fallen madly in love with her. Joan was officially canonized by the Catholic Church in 1920.
-----------excerpted from Saints Preserve Us by Sean Kelly and Rosemary Roberts
-----------excerpted from Saints Preserve Us by Sean Kelly and Rosemary Roberts
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