Joan of Arc

Over the past week or so I have been researching into Joan of Arc. Everyone on our illustration module got given a character to research, mine being good ole Joan. I wasn't amazingly pleased when I found I'd got her and didn't have the slightest bit of knowledge about her. Now, we're best mates! She was quite a character...

Born 6th January 1412 and died May 30th 1431. She was executed or rather burned at the stake for her beliefs and being adamant that she received 'visions' from God. More properly known as Jeanneton Darc, she was captured by the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake at nineteen. Twenty-four years later, the Holy See reviewed the decision of the ecclesiastical court, found her innocent, and declared her a martyr. She was beatified in 1909 and later canonized in 1920. So basically she was found innocent and made a Saint for dying for her beliefs knowing that her death would be immanent if she continued to believe.
Joan asserted that she had visions from God that told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. This is what got her into so much bother...
She was known by yet another name too, The Maid of Orleans. For just a peasant girl from eastern France she did a lot of things. One of which being leading the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII.

I've even got a better understanding of all these posh words too. And all this is thought was a load of rubbish! How my opinion has changed over this week...

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