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1412–1431 France
Jehanne Darc also known as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) (c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) was a religious visionary, martyr, saint and heroine of France. Burned at the stake as a heretic after sentencing by a tribunal of pro-English clergy, she was later cleared of the charges during an appellate trial of the Inquisition on 7 July 1456, and canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church on 16 May 1920.
Also known as: Jeanne d'Arc, Jehanne Darc
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I was thirteen when I had a Voice from God for my help and guidance.
Trial records (1431)
There is a saying among children, that 'Sometimes one is hanged for speaking the truth.'"
Trial records (1431)
I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
Trial records (1431)
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still; is not this lawful for all prisoners?
Trial records (1431)
If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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.
Trial records (1431)
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
The Voice had promised me that, as soon I came to the King, he would receive me.
Trial records (1431)
The light comes at the same time as the Voice. … I will not tell you all; I have not leave; my oath does not touch on that.
Trial records (1431)
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.
Trial records (1431)
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.
I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
Asked if in her youth she had learned any craft, she said yes, to sew and spin: and in sewing and spinning, she feared no woman in Rouen.
Court record (1429)
I do not fear men-at-arms; my way has been made plain before me. If there be men-at-arms my Lord God will make a way for me to go to my Lord Dauphin. For that am I come.
You say that you are my judge. I do not know if you are! But I tell you that you must take good care not to judge me wrongly, because you will put yourself in great danger. I warn you, so that if God punishes you for it, I would have done my duty by telling you!
Trial records (1431)
I know this now. Every man gives his life to what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing…
"...you shall never hold the Kingdom of France from God, the King of Heaven, the son of St. Mary; but King Charles, the true heir, will hold it; for God, the King of Heaven wishes it so...."
One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.
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