or was she a christian??
2006-07-07 12:11:17 · 22 answers · asked by unnerving_sympathy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Joan of Arc was not a witch, she was a Christian.
St. Joan of Arc
Feastday: May 30
Patron of soldiers and France
b.1412 d.1431
St. Joan of Arc is the patroness of soldiers and of France. On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class, at the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she heard voices: those of St. Michael, St. Catherine and St. Margaret.
At first the messages were personal and general. Then at last came the crowning order. In May, 1428, her voices "of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret" told Joan to go to the King of France and help him reconquer his kingdom. For at that time the English king was after the throne of France, and the Duke of Burgundy, the chief rival of the French king, was siding with him and gobbling up evermore French territory.
After overcoming opposition from churchmen and courtiers, the seventeen year old girl was given a small army with which she raised the seige of Orleans on May 8, 1429. She then enjoyed a series of spectacular military successes, during which the King was able to enter Rheims and be crowned with her at his side.
In May 1430, as she was attempting to relieve Compiegne, she was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English when Charles and the French did nothing to save her. After months of imprisonment, she was tried at Rouen by a tribunal presided over by the infamous Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, who hoped that the English would help him to become archbishop.
Through her unfamiliarity with the technicalities of theology, Joan was trapped into making a few damaging statements. When she refused to retract the assertion that it was the saints of God who had commanded her to do what she had done, she was condemned to death as a heretic, sorceress, and adulteress, and burned at the stake on May 30, 1431. She was nineteen years old. Some thirty years later, she was exonerated of all guilt and she was ultimately canonized in 1920, making official what the people had known for centuries. Her feast day is May 30.
Joan was canonized in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV.
2006-07-07 12:18:20 · answer #1 · answered by Candice H 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
she was not a witch, she was a christian that heard the voice of saint Michael and some other saints telling her to save France from the English. After helping defeat the English, she was captured and In revenge the English made a totally unfair trial against her (mainly lies) saying that she was a witch, and that she was crazy.
She was burned at the stake for hearsay at the age of 19.
2006-07-07 12:21:18 · answer #2 · answered by thetruthisoutthere6137 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joan of Arc was said to listen to voices. Not a good idea. Only the Lord can instruct from the Bible not spirits and voices.
2006-07-07 12:41:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joan of Arc was a Christian and a Martyr. She followed God and did as He led her to do.
2006-07-07 12:15:00 · answer #4 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, she wasn't a witch. She was a Christian She might have been psychotic.She was a powerful symbol for the French. The British burned her at the stake for wearing men's clothes and to demoralize the French.
2006-07-07 12:13:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was not a witch, but she was burned for being a witch because she challenged the Church by beating men at their own game(war).
ie she did hold her place in society, "bare foot and pregnant" but lead troops into battle. She was born in the wrong era, she should have been born 700 years early or in this day and age.
2006-07-07 12:44:35 · answer #6 · answered by elvenlike13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but she was a Roman catholic and they have a lot of witchcraft in their religion like praying to the dead, and cuttting fingers of people and having them as relics in the churches and believing that they have some magic powers.
She most certainly WAS NOT a Christian as Rcs are NOT Christians.
2006-07-07 12:18:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
She was a Christian from France whose visions ensured victory over their foes until one day she got it wrong a battle got lost she got the blame was was burned alive at the stake.
2006-07-07 19:17:51 · answer #8 · answered by charlotte e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was a Roman Catholic who was financed by the RC Church... then executed by the RC Church as a hieratic and witch,
I have no idea who she must have crossed to get dumped by the same CULT that promoted her.
Her usefulness was obviously at and end.
2006-07-07 12:18:03 · answer #9 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She was a Christian I think.
2006-07-07 12:14:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋