JOAN OF ARC.
"PROTECTRESS OF THE FRENCH." By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. ; (Received December 6, 4.50 p.m.) Rome, December 5. His Holiness the Pope has fixed the beatification of Joan of Arc for April, when she will be proclaimed protectress of the French.
Joan of Arc, or the Maid of Orleans, was born at Domremy, France, of poor parents. She was brought up in an atmosphere of religious enthusiasm, and -was subject, in consequence, to fits of religious ecstasy, in one of which she said she heard voices calling to her from heaven to devote hereclf to the deliverance of France, which was then being invaded by English troops. She marched from Blois at the head of 10,000 men. and drove the English from their entrenchments. Later she attempted to assist in the raising of the siege of Compiegne, and was taken prisoner by the besieging English. After an imprisonment of four months, she was tried for sorcery, and in the year 1431 was burned to death at Rouen, at the age of 29.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13926, 7 December 1908, Page 5
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