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Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Claiming to be ...
Joan of Arc (4 C, 33 P) L. Louis IX of France (2 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Patron saints of France" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total ...
The St. Joan of Arc Chapel at the Marquette University campus, moved from its original location in France. Joan of Arc's feast day is 30 May. Although reforms in 1968 moved many medieval European saints' days off the general calendar in order to make room for more non-Europeans, her feast day is still celebrated on many local and regional ...
More than 600 years after her birth, Joan of Arc — a patron saint of France — remains an object of not just historical, but cultural fascination. Over the summer, ...
Statue of Joan of Arc in the Place du Martroi, Orléans. L'Amour ("Love") (1825), statue, marble, Paris, Musée du Louvre.; Spartacus (1830), Larger-than-life statue, marble, Paris, Musée du Louvre: Originally (1831) erected in an ensemble of eight statues for l'allée des grands hommes ("Avenue of Great Men") in the Jardin des Tuileries, the statue represents Spartacus breaking his chains ...
Île-de-France (Paris) Denis, Genevieve Lorraine: Saint Nicholas, Joan of Arc Germany Bavaria: St. Mary Patroness of Bavaria (feast on 1 May) St. Rupert and St. Emmeram (Bavaria proper) St. Kilian and St. Sebaldus (Franconia) St. Hedwig of Andechs Saxony: Willehad of Bremen Greece: Aegina: Saint Nectarios: Cephalonia: Saint Gerasimos: Chios ...
In time, St Denis came to be regarded as the patron saint of the French people, with St Louis the patron of the monarchy and royal dynasties. [9] Saint Denis or Montjoie! Saint Denis! became the typical war-cry of the French armies. The oriflamme, which became the standard of France, was the banner consecrated upon his tomb.
Joan of Arc broke her sword on the back of a camp follower. [17] Two days later the Dauphin ordered a march to the city of the coronation : the march began at Gien on 29 June 1429. The ease of the march showed both the fragility of the Anglo-Burgundian rule and the restoration of confidence in the cause of Charles VII of France.