At 13, she heard the voices of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint Marguerite asking her to liberate France from the English and to have the king crowned in Reims. A year after delivering Orléans, she was taken prisoner at Compiègne and delivered to the English. Condemned as a heretic by an ecclesiastical tribunal, she was burned alive at the age of 19 in Rouen. She is co-patroness of France.
Tomorrow Visitation of the Virgin Mary