Seven nominations were received for the International Joan Of Arc Society. Then a careful reading of the laudations revealed not only the scope and breadth of material contained in the Pedagogic Resources, Joan Bibliography, Joan Imaged, Interactive Map and Joan Links, but a commonality as an excellent online resource to start a study of Joan of Arc and embracing the warrior maidens code of ethical and moral behavior.
Joan of Arc, Joan D'Arc or Saint Joan of Arc, all being the same 17 year old maiden follower her Lord and saved a nation, being the youngest female to lead an army.1 She was the heroine of my youth, served as a role model on how to pray as demonstrated by my father, who wrote in his Navy issued bible of World War II "pray fervently, on bended knees, with supplication, as Joan of Arc." In my later life upon converting to Catholicism, she became my Patron Saint.
Read with joy and thanksgiving, a true teaching and learning web site, International Joan of Arc Society.
Another laudation contained this paragraph as one of the reasons for making her nomination, which would promote a study of Joan of Arc: If we will pray, believe and love as earnestly as Joan did, then we too will be used by God! This is the secret to Joan's sanctity, she listened, answered and obeyed.2
All of us pray a reader would be encouraged to embrace Joan of Arc, not only as a young maiden who lead an army to save a nation, but also as a young girl who was the first to be branded a heretic and over 400 years later acknowledged a Saint.3
Footnotes:
1Saint Joan of Arc, Catholic Encyclopedia: Born at Domremy in Champagne, probably on 6 January, 1412; died at Rouen, 30 May, 1431.
2Virginia Frohlick-Saint Joan of Arc Center: Prayers
Reviewer: R. D. L.
Key teaching element: Religious and Spiritual.
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