| Saint Joan of Arc was
born in Domremy
in Lorraine (France), in 1412.
Until the age of seventeen years she lived the life of a simple sheperdess. At this time she was commanded by Heavenly Voices to lead the French armies against the English forces which had invaded France. She did so with great success. Betrayed, she was tried by civil and ecclesiastical courts and condemed to death. She was burned alive at the stake in Rouen, May 31, 1431. A later trial established her innocense and after due process she was declared a Saint in 1920. |

