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Joan of Arc
JOAN of ARC
Jeanne d’ Arc
In the beginning………………….
Joan of Arc was born in Domremy, Champagne,
France on January 6, 1412. She was the youngest
of five children born to Jacques d’ Arc, who, though
a peasant, farmed his own land. She was a child like
any other, taught by her mother the skills a woman
needed, but untroubled with book-learning; remark-
able only for early and intense love of prayer, which
did not prevent her playing the usual children’s
games round the village “fairy tryee”. She grew up
against the chaotic background of the wars between
France and the English and Burgundian alliance,
and though Domremy lay alongside Burgundian
territory it had always been loyal to the French.
When she was about thirteen there came the first of
those experiences which she was afterwards to call
her voices; to begin with, it was a voice, but later,
presences manifested themselves who she knew to
be St. Michael, St. Margaret and St. Catherine. Like
St. Teresa of Avila, she was reluctant to tal
Approximate Word count = 703
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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