JOAN OF ARC
SOME, December 5. The Pope has fixed the beatification of Joan of Arc for April, when she will beproclaimed the Protectress of the French. Beatification is the ceremony which precedes canonisation. After the merits of the individual (says the Encyclopaedia Britannica) have been duly tested and approved, this Pope decrees the canonisation. The term (says the same authority) was not introduced till the twelfth century. The finst person that availed himself of it was Udulric, Bishop of Constance, in his letter to Pope CaJixtus II relative- to the canonisation of Bishop- Conrad. The act, however, dates from a much more remote antiquity, and was originally only in commemoration of the martyrs.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 25
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114JOAN OF ARC Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 25
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