Joan of Ark

Joan of Ark

Joan of Ark was born Jeanne dÕ Arch, in 1412 in a small French town

named Domremy to a tenant farmer. Joan had manlike qualities and was

persuasive and strong. Joan never learned to read and write she was

clairvoyant, she had knowledge of the future without using the five senses. In

1425 when Joan was 12 she began hearing ÒvoicesÓ of St. Catherine, St.

Michael, and St. Margaret. Believing them to have been sent by God. These

voices told her that it was her given mission to free her country from the English,

and help the Dauphin gain the French throne. These voices also told her to cut

her hair, dress in menÕs uniform and to pick up the arms. She persuaded Charles

(who would become King), to let her fight in the war against the English. ...