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Saint Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431) is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She is, along with St. Denis and St. Theresa of Lisieux, one of three patron saints of France. |
Leonov Oleksiy