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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Category: History
Details: Words: 919 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Joan of Arc
Saint 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. A pious child, who enjoyed solitude in the woods near her home, at a very
early age, she heard voices. Eventually she came to understand that they were those of Saint
Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret. …showed first 75 words of 919 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 919 total…a relapsed heretic before the secular court. On May 30, 1431, in the center of the Old Market
Place at Rouen, holding a crucifix, Joan of Arc met her end as she was burned at the stake. On
July 7, 1456, 25 years after Joan of Arc's execution, Charles the VII recognized Joan's service to
France with a trial that annulled her verdict of guilt. On May 16, 1920, Joan of Arc became a saint
when Pope Benedict XV canonized her.
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