Sophia Chlosta

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Saint Joan
of Arc
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Background information

▪ She is the patron saint of

soldiers and of France

▪ She was born to a tenant

farmer named "Jacques
d’Arc, from the village of
Domrémy, in northeastern
France."

▪ She could not read or write

but her mother made her
devoted to the Catholic
Church at a young age.
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Background Information
(continued)

▪ When she in her father's garden

and was just 13 years old, she had
a vision from Saint Michael, Saint
Margret and Saint Catherine

▪ They told her to drive out the

English from the French territory.

▪ They told her to bring the Dauphin

to Reims for his Coronation.
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Joans traveled to
Orleans
▪ When she was 16 years old she asked one
of her relatives to take her to Vaucouleurs.

▪ She arrived in Orleans in May 1428.

▪ She requested to see Robert de

Baudricourt, he was the Garrison
commander for consent to visit the French
Royal Court in Chinon.

▪ After she was rejected by Robert de

Baudricourt, she tried to entice a small
group of followers that believed that she
was a virgin.
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"Joan traveled to
Orleans"(continued)
▪ Joan chopped her hair off and
dressed in men's clothes for a 11 day
journey that will cross into enemy's
territory to Chinon, the place where
the crown prince's palaces.

▪ Joan made a promise to Charles that

she would see him crowned king at
Reims, the long-established location
for the French royal inauguration, and
she had "asked him to give her an
army to lead to Orléans, then under
siege from the English."
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Joans Fall

▪ After a good success, Joan’s good name

unfurled "far and wide among French forces."
Joan and the people who followed
her protected Charles across enemy areas to
Reims

▪ Overruling towns and sanctioning his crowning

as King Charles VII in July 1429.

▪ Joan argued that the French should press their

advantage with an attempt to retake Paris, but
Charles disagreed

▪ "Georges de La Trémoille, warned Charles that

Joan was becoming too dominant. The Anglo-
Burgundians were able to fortify their positions
in Paris, and turned back an attack led by Joan
in September."
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Joan's Trial &
Imprisonment
▪ Joan was held in a prison guarded
by English soldiers, instead of being
in an clerical prison with nuns.

▪ "When Joan appealed to the

Council of Basel and the Pope to be
placed in a proper prison, Bishop
Cauchon refused her request, which
would have stopped his
proceeding."
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Saint Joan's Death
▪ There was eyewitness description of
Joan's death was by burning at the
stake on May 30, 1431.

▪ The way she died was she was tied to ta

tall pillar at the Vieux-Marché in Rouen.

▪ She had asked a priests named Fr.

Martin Ladvenu and Fr. Isambart de la
Pierre to have them hold a up a crucifix.

▪ After her death the English swept the

coal to uncover her body to reveal, so no
one could gossip of her not taking off
alive, then they set her body on fire two
more times to diminish her to ashes so
no one could gather relics.

▪ After burning her body to ash, the

English threw her remains into the Seine
River
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Saint Joan of Arc
Canonized
▪ She was canonized with a big
celebration on May 16, 1920, it was at
Saint Peter's Basilica.

▪ She was finally honored with the

faithful.

▪ That same year, the French

government officially made May 8 a
national holiday. Her celebrated feast
day is May 30, the day of her death.

▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q
3uAu1EuRc
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Two World Events

▪ In 1421 in Austria, Jews were captured and killed.

▪ In 1428 King Alfonso V, at the time the king of Naples and Sicily,
orders the Jews in Sicily to change their religion to Catholicism.