Joan of Arc is perhaps the most famous individual in French history. Not only was she a critical component of the Hundred Years' War between England and France (which had implications not only for the direct future of both countries, but in a domino effect the course of world history), but her story is also a moving and inspiring narrative. France is steadily losing the war. An illiterate French peasant teenage girl claims that God's messengers themselves came down to Earth and told her to save France, and against all expectations she manages attract the attention of the French dauphin. He makes her commander of his forces, and she leads them to one blazing victory after another - bringing France back from the brink of utter defeat. At the height of her popularity, she is captured by the British and burned alive in a fiery spectacle - except that instead of demoralizing the French army, it actually motivates them to fight harder and eventually oust the British completely.
The narrative is so rich and interesting that it seems almost made for Hollywood. Yet even as this has captured public imagination, there is another facet to Joan's life that is hotly debated by historians: her visions. For most of her life, Joan was very reluctant to speak of these. However, under duress her trial by the British, she was forced to describe them in detail. In fact the topic of her visions took center stage in the discussion - and this is where most of our scholarship on the subject derives its sources from. At her trial, she testified that she experienced her first vision in 1425 at the age of 13, when she was in her "father's garden" and saw figures she identified as Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and take the Dauphin to Reims for his consecration. She said she cried when they left, as they were so beautiful. For three years the saints visited Jeanne, and their “voices,” as she called them, told her more and more distinctly that she must save France, though as yet they gave her no definite commands. Saint Michael appeared to Joan as a good-looking gentleman. Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret appeared as nothing but faces, and even regarding Saint Michael she could recall very few visual details. Joan believed very strongly that the apparitions were real; she even claimed at one point to have clasped Saints Catherine and Margaret in embraces, and recalled that they had smelled wonderful.
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Last I heard in Feb2021, SIU cleared YRP of any wrong-doing in a short-pursuit and that the alleged driver of the car Drake David Tye Paul was gonna appear in court March.
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