Saint
Saint Joan of Arc
- Country / origin
- France
- Life
- 1412 – 1431
- Feast
- 30 May
- Canonised
- 1920
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
A peasant girl from Domrémy who believed God called her to help France in the Hundred Years War. Captured and condemned by a pro-English Church court, she was burned at Rouen at 19. A later trial (1456) annulled the verdict.
Patron of
- France
- soldiers
- people unjustly accused
When to ask for intercession
- when unjustly accused
- to have courage to follow one's conscience
A short prayer
Saint Joan of Arc, intercede for me, that I may follow God's call with courage and trust.
Written for Lumen as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What we know — and how
Historians debate
Her voices are part of her own testimony at trial; the Church canonised her for her holiness of life, not to rule on every detail of her mission.
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