Saint Joan of Arc (1412-1431), the Maid of Orléans, was a peasant girl who, led by heavenly voices, rallied the French army during the Hundred Years' War. Captured and tried by an ecclesiastical court under English control, she was burned at the stake at nineteen and later fully vindicated. Canonized in 1920, she is a patroness of France.

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