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Joan of Arc, also known as "the Maid of Orleans",was a 15th century virgin saint and national heroine of France. She led the French army to several important victories and led king Charles VII to his coronation. She was captured by the English and tried by an ecclesiastical court led by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, an English partisan; the court convicted her of heresy and she was burned at the stake by the English when she was nineteen years old. Twenty-four years later, the Vatican reviewed the decision of the ecclesiastical court, found her innocent, and declared her a martyr. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized as a saint in 1920.Modern biographical summaries often assert a birthdate of 6 January for Joan. In fact, however, she could only estimate her own age.Joan asserted that she had visions from God that told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege at Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days. Several more swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne.

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Patronage:France; martyrs; captives; militants; people ridiculed for their piety; prisoners; rape victims(though she was not raped); soldiers; Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service; Women's Army Corps
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