Posted on 01/04/2015 1:21:53 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Joan of Arc cut her hair short and wore men’s clothes. She particularly fancied beautiful armor and fine horses, which she rode astride, and was admired for her prowess with the lance. She led troops into battle, remaining in armor for six days running if necessary, and never faltered in her objective even after the enemy captured her. They tried her and executed her, not for war crimes, but for being a witch.
We might expect to see her commemorated on a postage stamp or a silver dollar along with other intrepid females who fought for women’s rights or otherwise beat men at their own game. But feminists seem wary of Joan, as if they didn’t quite trust her. Anyway, they don’t often mention her, at least in public, and they certainly don’t carry her banner in demonstrations. That shows a degree of political acumen on their part, for were they to call attention to her it would soon become painfully clear that she didn’t care a fig for equal rights, for either man or woman.
What concerned her was the rights of God. Her sole consideration was the supreme rights of Christ the King over civil society. These she secured by unabashed use of force, putting the lawful male successor on the French throne where he belonged as designated lieutenant of Christ. The banner she carried was white, spangled with fleurs-de-lys. It bore the figure of Christ the King seated in glory holding the world in His hand, flanked by two angels and the names of Jesus and Mary. Joan had it made to order by a Scotch painter in Tours called Hamish Power, to a pattern brought to her from Heaven by St. Margaret and St. Catherine.
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St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Chapel is home to the Traditional Latin Mass Community located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
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Johanna von Orleans.
Joan of Arc was probably mad as a hatter. Which in no way detracts from her tactical skills or abilities as a leader.
My confirmation saint.
She heard voices, one bit of evidence supporting your position.
How did she show prowess with a lance?
That’s kind of what I based it on. And she was reported to have “raptures,” which would be considered seizures today, probably as a result of some chemical imbalance similar to that in schizophrenia.
Tossup which you’ll see first: Joan of Arc on a coin, a street named after George Washington Carver, or the Second Coming of the Messiah.
President Charles de Gaulle of France loved annoying his erstwhile allies the U.S. & Britain. He pulled out of NATO & opposed the U.K. joining the European economic union.
So cartoonists depicted De Gaulle wearing medieval armor & a woman’s wig declaring, “My voices tell me to drive out the English even if it takes the rest of the 15th Century!”
His personal emblem was the Cross of Lorraine, as once borne by Joan of Arc.
I agree. However, we are following a “naturalistic” explanation of her voices and “raptures.”. There are those who believe in a “supernatural” explanation. She did manipulate battles effectively a natural activity. Once again I agree with you in that she was certainly away from the norm in hearing and seeing things a hallmark of psychosis.
You would have been great as a jury person for a “witch” trial...;)
Orleans was a Knight of Charlemagne. I wonder if there is any relationship?
Same for my 3rd daughter.
If Joan were mad her enemies would have never have had the trouble doing away with her that they actually did have. Also, she would never have gotten past the French generals at all.
Why did God want the French to win?
Mine too.
Maybe God just wanted to establish the real requirements as a lesson to today’s Feminists.
Most uneducated kids these days probably think she didn’t like to text as she was hearing voices and she burned a steak.
We assume that but it isn't in any way factual. The size and complexity of Understanding God has obliterates so sharply focused an end. What would flow from a the Prince's taking the throne? Why did God use Jean D’arc, an illiterate peasant girl when there was no end of military men in France? The whole story is a fascinating, tantalizing thing no matter whether you feel God was behind it or not
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