Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.Joan of Arc
“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.”
“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.”
— JOAN OF ARC
French saint and military leader · 1412 – 1431
A peasant girl from Domremy, Joan said divine voices guided her to lift the siege of Orleans in 1429 and see Charles VII crowned at Reims. Captured, tried for heresy and burned at Rouen in 1431, she was canonised in 1920 and is a patron saint of France.
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