Divine voices guided a young girl to lead the French against the English. Burned as a heretic in 1431, the Maid of Orléans ...

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of ...

Joan of Arc, a peasant who claimed saintly visions, persuaded the heir to the French throne to let her command troops, lifted ...

The History Squad shows how Joan of Arc’s arrival at Orléans led to the lifting of the seven-month siege. The episode examines the city’s defenses, the English siege lines and why the relief of ...

There is a terrific story from the life of St. Francis of Assisi about one of his first disciples, a fellow called Brother Juniper. One day, Juniper goes into the woods, where a herd of pigs is ...

While secular art projects around the saint are flourishing in the U.S., it is worth remembering that nothing in her work can be explained without God. St. Joan of Arc is depicted on horseback in an ...

Frise surmontant le cycle peint de “La vie de Jeanne d’Arc”. On the 7th of July, in 1456, a retrial of Joan of Arc found her innocent of the charges of heresy. It was twenty-five years after the Maid ...

In New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Place de France, stands the statue of St. Joan of Arc. Joan was born in Domrémy, France, a sister city and namesake of New Orleans. The statue honors Joan’s spirit of ...

The 18th Annual Joan of Arc Parade marches on Joan of Arc’s 614th birthday on January 6, 2026, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the French Quarter, and will feature more participants than ever, a new route, a ...

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Some of our city’s most beautiful statues are dedicated to iconic women from the pages of history. Eleanor Roosevelt, Irish immigrant Annie Moore, and Harriet Tubman are among the few real-life women ...