Act, and God will act.
Joan of Arc
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan of Arc
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
Joan of Arc
Act, and God will act.
Joan of Arc
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Joan of Arc
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
Joan of Arc
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
Joan of Arc
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan of Arc
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Joan of Arc
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Joan of Arc
Saint
Born ca. 1412
Domrémy, Duchy of Bar, Kingdom of France.
Died 30 May 1431 (aged 19)
Rouen, France
(then controlled by England)
Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans"
is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint.
A peasant girl born in what is now eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII of France.
She was captured by the Burgundians, transferred to the English in exchange for money, put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon for charges of "insubordination and heterodoxy,"[3] and was burned at the stake for heresy when she was only 19 years old.
Joan of Arc's Death at the Stake, by Hermann Stilke (1843)
Twenty-five years after her execution, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr.[4]
Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She is – along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux – one of the patron saints of France.
Joan said that she had visions from God that instructed her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War.
The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission.
She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days.
Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne.
To the present day, Joan of Arc has remained a significant figure in Western civilization.
From Napoleon I onward, French politicians of all leanings have invoked her memory.
Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare (Henry VI, Part 1), Voltaire (The Maid of Orleans), Friedrich Schiller (The Maid of Orleans), Giuseppe Verdi (Giovanna d'Arco), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (The Maid of Orleans), Mark Twain (Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc), Arthur Honegger (Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher), Jean Anouilh (L'Alouette), Bertolt Brecht (Saint Joan of the Stockyards), George Bernard Shaw (Saint Joan) and Maxwell Anderson (Joan of Lorraine).
Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc have continued in film, theatre, television, video games, music, and performances.
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