Why is Saint Joan of Arc a model for Christians today?

Question

Why is Saint Joan of Arc a model for Christians today?
I need info for a school project!! Help please!!

Answer 1

Here is a site that will answer all you ever want to know about St. Joan:

http://www.stjoan-center.com/

http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc

Here is a site that provides you with the complete transcripts of Joan's trial for heresy:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/joanofarc-trial.html

St. Joan might be considered a model for us today because:

1. Took a public position based upon her faith despite what others would think of her

2. She listened to God's call and acted upon it without worrying about the consequences

3. She was pious, yet bold, not timid or politically correct when it came to following her faith

4. She went where the sinners were, into the battlefield and was not ashamed to be found among some very rough characters

5. Even when her very life was being threatened at her trial for heresy, she never recanted her faith, including when she was burning at the stake

Mark Twain called Joan, "the one person documented in the record of history whose actions were genuinely free, innocent, and devoid of selfishness"
Source: Twain, Mark. Joan of Arc. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1989.

Answer 2

First of all, just letting you know that i'm a devoted Muslim, but i'm aware of this Christian historic figure...She can be a good role-model because she started out as a commoner who lives at the outskirts of France and at a very young age, she stopped at nothing to make herself heard by installing trust in her people in what is the right way in gaining what is rightfully hers and her people, and that is to strive hard with the guidance of God...

Answer 3

She's a role model for people of all faiths, because she followed what she believed and worked very hard to keep her country free of foreign control. She did this even though she was young, poor, and female in a time and place that devalued all of these things.

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Answer 4

Listen here kid.......the ONLY model for Christian's today is JESUS CHRIST!!.......Joan of Arc is just another dead person, that's all. No more no less. If she was a true Christian when she died then good for her, she will inherit the Kingdom of God. But other than that.......forget about it.

Answer 5

Why is Saint Joan of Arc a model for CATHOLICS. ( I like Catholics and all religions.)

Answer 6

She asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War.

Answer 7

i dont htink joan of arc was ever canonized.

i dont think shes a saint.

Answer 8

Well she did think God was talking to her and guiding her action much like delusional Christians of today.