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
messages
I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
soul say-anything tears
Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
conservative fear-nothing fear-not
I fear nothing for God is with me!
war soldier victory
The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
angel perfect spirit
The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
children people littles
Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
wisdom grace may
[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.
kings cities paris
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
poor folks unkindness
The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
hatred france arcs
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
broken may given
If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
grace may do-you-know
Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
eye angel departed
I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.
wish prisoner stills
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?