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Joan of Arc

  1412?-31, French saint and national heroine, called the Maid of Orléans. A
  farm girl, she began at a young age to hear the "voices" of St. Michael, St.
  Catherine, and St. Margaret. When she was about 16, the voices exhorted
  her to bear aid to the Dauphin, later Charles Vii of France, then kept from the
  throne by the English in the Hundred Years War. Joan journeyed in male
  attire to meet the dauphin and conquered his skepticism as to her divine
  mission. She was furnished with troops, but her leadership provided spirit and
  morale more than military prowess. In May 1429 she raised the siege of
  Orléans, and in June she defeated the English at Patay. After considerable
  persuasion the dauphin agreed to be crowned at Rheims, and Joan was at the
  pinnacle of her fortunes. In Sept. 1429 she unsuccessfully besieged Paris.
  The following spring she went to relieve Compiègne but was captured by the
  Burgundians and sold to the English, who were eager for her death. To
  escape responsibility, the English turned her over to the ecclesiastical court at
  Rouen, where she was tried for heresy and witchcraft by French clerics who
  supported the English. Probably her most serious crime was the claim of
  direct inspiration from God; in the eyes of the court this refusal to accept the
  church hierarchy constituted heresy. Only at the end of the lengthy trial did
  she recant. She was condemned to life imprisonment, but shortly afterward
  she retracted her abjuration. She was then turned over to the secular court as
  a relapsed heretic and was burned at the stake (May 30, 1431) in Rouen.
  The proceedings of the original trial were annulled in 1456. Joan was
  canonized in 1920. Her career lent itself to numerous legends, and she has
  been represented in much art and literature. Feast: May 30.

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