St. Joan's Fire: Saint Joan Of Arc

St. Joan’s Fire The Hundred Years’ War brought to fame one of the most famous heroines in history. This heroine was a teenage girl who later became a warrior and then a saint. Also known as the Maid of Orléans, Jeanne, also spelled as Joan, d’Arc fought during the Hundred Years’ War in the Lancastrian phase and first rose to prominence when she helped to end the siege of Orléans only nine days after her arrival at the city. She was captured by the Burgundians at a later time and handed over to the English where she was put on trial and consequently executed by burning at the stake. Although her death was fiery spectacle, her life began quietly and unremarkably. In a village in northern France called Domrémy, Joan of Arc was born on January sixth in the year of 1412 to parents Jacques and Isabelle d’Arc. The village she lived in was surrounded by pro-Burgundian lands but still remained loyal to the French, and as a consequence, endured several raids and at
The English then held Joan prisoner and put her on trial for a multitude of charges, the most notable being cross-dressing, which Joan often did while in armor or traveling through dangerous territory. The trial was incredibly unjust and ignored or twisted laws, such as those that stated when cross-dressing was allowed, and she was found guilty and sentenced to die by burning at the stake. So, at the age of nineteen, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake on May 30th, 1431, in Rouen, Normandy. By her own request, Joan was burned while clutching a crucifix to her chest. Posthumously, Joan was cleared of all charges, declared a martyr, and then canonized, becoming one of the nine secondary saints of France. Jeanne d’Arc was an intelligent, strong-willed, and possible divine woman, who was more a Girl on Fire than Katniss Everdeen could ever be. Vive la