Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans", is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Joan of Arc was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in north-east France. Joan said she received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSaint
CountryFrance
thinking voice grace
If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it. I think I was about thirteen when it came to me for the first time.
girl voice warfare
... I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare ...
years voice firsts
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.
smell burning
Do you smell something burning or is it me?
god
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
mother tomorrow lord
Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!
judging conservative judge-me
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
faith should said
If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
thinking hands years
I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.
christian hands done
Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
angel men advice
What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
angel language dies
I die for speaking the language of the angels.
men pms espn
When women came up with PMS, men came up with ESPN.
leadership used
I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.