The Trial And Death of Joan of Arc :: St Joan of Arcs Heresy Trial and Death

On May 16, 1920, Pope Benedict XV conducted a solemnity at St. Peters Basilica in Rome to canonise Joan of Arc, often referred to as the Maid of Orleans. This ceremony was the final step in a process that was begun in 1849 by the Bishop of Orleans, Felix Dupanloup, over 400 long time afterwards St. Joans was tried, convicted and executed in the name of the Church. A report of her heroic deeds and an intensive review of her life, virtues and the trial transcripts that condemned her to be destroy at the stake, resulted first in her beatification in 1909, and finally her canonisation 11 eld later in 1920 (Pernoud 245). Amazingly, two years after that, the woman who had been condemned, put to death, and then canonized as a venerate by the Catholic Church, was declared the patroness of France (McBride 82).Jeanne dArc was natural around January 6, 1412, in the village of Domremy in France (Thurston). At the time of her birth, France and England had been set-aside(p) in the longe st war in history, which has come to be cognize as the Hundred Years War. These two countries were fighting over whose right it was to rule. The English had occupied much of northern France, and the primary issue became the survival of France as an independent state rather than as part of an Anglo-French empire command by the English monarchy. The French were determined to suit the English let on and crown Charles VII as their king (Reither 227-229). Joan was a simple crosspatch girl who was raised in a Catholic home as the youngest of five children (Thurston). Her mother was very religious and had a big enamour on Joans life. Joan never learned to read or write, but was deft in spinning and sewing. She was also always very strong and well (Michelet 8). At the age of thirteen, Joan began to have holy visions and hear the voices of saints she identified as St. Margaret, St. Catherine, and St. Michael (Thurston). Her voices convinced her to vow to remain a virgin (Lucie-Smith ). When Joan was seventeen years old, the voices revealed her divine mission. Joan was told that she had been chosen to lead the French army into battle against the English, to drive them from French soil. The voices instructed her to go to see Robert Baudricourt, the Captain of Vaucouleurs, who would arrange for her to be interpreted to see the king (Michelet 12).