Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint, is of peasant origin. Motivated by a religious mystic, deeply resented the very grave crisis experienced at that time by France, engaged in the Hundred Years War and torn by internal dissension between factions of the Armagnacs and Burgundians.
Considering that it had invested in the mission to save the kingdom of France, it felt heavenly voices that spoke of this task, reached in 1429 the future Charles VII in Chinon, and obtained the command of a contingent which marched on Orleans, besieged by the English, was about to give way. Freed the city siege (May 1492), with the victories of Jargeau, and especially Beaugency Patay (June 1429) led the French forces to reclaim the territory to Reims, giving great impetus to national sentiment.
Thanks to the exploits of the "accursed goadings d'Orleans," the French king could enter in Reims, where he was crowned July 17, 1429. Direttasi then to Paris to liberate the city, was injured and had to abandon the enterprise. On May 24, 1430 was captured by Burgundians at Compiegne and handed over to the British that they tried on charges of heresy and witchcraft (1431). Condemned to the stake, was burned on the old market square in old Rouen 30 May 1431. Only in 1450, Charles VII had opened an inquiry into his case. Completely rehabilitated in 1456, beatified in 1909 by Pius X in 1920 was canonized by Benedict XV.
Today Joan of Arc is at the center of a network of interests so vast and intricate that many scientists are still debating on the figure.
In France, is venerated as a saint and national heroine at the same time, a model of virtue and liberating his statues are found in many urban centers and in almost all churches, while the political parties for almost two centuries it vie image and moral heritage.
So she speaks of the scholar F. Cardin (Giovanna d'Arco. The virgin warrior, Mondadori, 1998), which defines a "modern figure" citing these reasons:
primarily to the paradoxical character, apparently contradictory, of his experience, a faithful daughter of the Church But it ends as a heretic, a representative sample of the identity French, but, as the region's rural Maas, is both a marginal show a young woman of that attribute that is so exquisitely Christian virginity [...] and yet - after what for her is her calling - constantly rejects women's clothing, a fragile young girl, stopped by intense religious faith, although he spent his brief experience as a public asset in the war.
[listen to the song "Joan of Arc" by F. DeAndre]
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