Can You Give Me Facts on Joan of Arc?

Joan of Arc, born in Domrémy, France (circa 1412) and passed away in Rouen, France (May 30, 1941)

Joan of Arc is popularly referred to as the Maid of Orleans. Her feast day is celebrated on the 30th of May and she is generally considered the patron saints of martyrs, prisoners, militants, and female member organizations as the Women’s Army Corps and WAVES.

Joan’s visions allegedly consisted of messages that relayed the need to recover dominion of her homeland from the leadership of the British kingdom during the Hundred Years’ War.

She was only nineteen years old when an ecclesiastical court found her guilty of heresy and was sentenced to death by burning on the stakes.

On May 16, 1920, Pope Benedict XV canonized St. Joan of Arc at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.