Joan of Arc was born in Domremy, Champagne,

France on January 6, 1412. She was the youngest

of five children born to Jacques d’ Arc, who, though

a peasant, farmed his own land. She was a child like

any other, taught by her mother the skills a woman

needed, but untroubled with book-learning; remark-

able only for early and intense love of prayer, which

did not prevent her playing the usual children’s

games round the village “fairy tryee”. She grew up

against the chaotic background of the wars between

France and the English and Burgundian alliance,

and though Domremy lay alongside Burgundian

territory it had always been loyal to the French.

When she was about thirteen there came the first of

those experiences which she was afterwards to call

her voices; to begin with, it was a voice, but later,

presences manifested themselves who she knew to

be St. Michael, St. Margaret and St. Catherine. Like

St. Teresa of Avila, she was reluctant to tal

Death…

Military campaigns……………………

In the Old Market Square at Rouen as a relapsed

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