SAINT JOAN OF ARC A SAINT FOR ALL PEOPLES

 Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered
and let them that hate Him
Flee from before His Face.
~Psalm 67
¡Viva Cristo†Rey! ¡Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!
Si vis pacem, para bellum!

St. Joan of Arc a young Catholic girl who grew up in the village of Domremy in France. Joan was about 16 years of age when she led the French Army into battle with the English. Joan was a very quiet and pious girl but she was illiterate she neither read nor wrote so she depended on others to write and read for her, a trusting soul she was and this led to her death.

St. Joan of Arc is the only Catholic saint that is acknowledged and revered by other religions. She made a mark on them like no other saint in history. She was put to death by a bishop of the Catholic Church. She stands out, she was amazing and someone to fashion your life after. St. Joan of Arc pray for me!

Today, please join me in praying the Novena to St. Joan of Arc, we need her help in the spiritual battle which now is raging in the United States and the world. It seems to us that we have no shepherd on earth to lead us. Let us pray for a saintly leader who is willing, like St. Joan of Arc, to risk their earthly life for what is waiting for those who love God and are faithful to Him. May we be blessed for our faithfulness, a gift of the Beatific Vision for which we all have been created.

May God bless and Our Lady of Prompt Succor, St. Joseph, St. Michael, and St. Raphael guide us and protect us in the days ahead.

Everything I do, I do for the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and St. Joseph Terror of Demons and for the love of souls. 

Novena to St. Joan of Arc

St. Joan of Arc, filled with compassion for those who invoke thee; filled with love for those who suffer; heavily laden with the weight of my troubles I kneel at thy feet and humbly beg thee to take my present need under thy special protection.

(here mention your petition)

Grant to recommend it to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lay it before the throne of Jesus.  Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted.

Above all, obtain for me the grace to behold God face to face, and with Mary and thee, and all the angels and saints, praise Him for all eternity.

O most powerful St. Joan, do not let me lose my soul but obtain for me the grace of winning my way to Heaven forever.  † Amen

Our Father.......Hail Mary......Glory Be

St. Joan of Arc, pray for us

*That the pope will consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary without further delay.


Timeline of the life of Saint Joan of Arc

1412 January 6 Approximate date of the birth of Saint Joan of Arc.

1422 October 21 Charles VI, king of France, dies leaving a controversy about his legal heir.

1424 Summer Joan of Arc is first visited by a "Voice" in her father's garden.

1428 May Joan makes her first trip to Vaucouleurs to meet with Robert de Baudricourt asking him to send her to the King.

1428 July Joan's home village of Domremy is raided by Burgundian troops and her family joined the other villagers in taking refuge in the nearby city of Neufchateau.

1428 October 12 English begin the siege of Orleans.

1429 January Joan again visits Robert de Baudricourt and predicts military defeat for the French.

1429 February 12 Battle of the Herrings where French troops from Orleans suffer defeat.

1429 February 23 Robert de Baudricourt finally sends her on her journey to Chinon escorted by two knights Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy.

1429 March 6 Joan of Arc arrives in Chinon.

1429 March 7 or   8  Joan visits the castle at Chinon and recognizes Charles VII among the crowd.

1429 mid-March Charles has Joan examined physically by ladies of his court. He also sent her to Poitiers to be examined by Church theologians.

1429 March 22 Joan dictates her first letter to the English demanding they leave France.

1429 early-April Joan goes to Tours where she receives armor, a sword, and her banner.

1429 April 24  Joan of Arc joins the rest of her army at Blois.

1429 April 26  Joan departs Blois with the army for Orleans.

1429 April 29  Arrives before Orleans and meets Lord Dunois for the first time.
Under cover of night, Joan enters into Orleans by the Burgundy gate and goes to live there in Jacques Boucher's house. The main body of the army is forced to return to Blois and cross to the other side of the river Loire.

1429 May 4   Lord Dunois returns from Blois with the main part of the army and launched an assault against the English-held fortifications around the church of St-Loup. Joan awakens and rides out to rally the French troops just as they are falling back from a failed assault. Her appearance turns the tide.

1429 May 5  Sends final letter to the English by way of an arrow shot into Les Tourelles.

1429 May 6   Joan with army crosses the river Loire in boats to attack the southern forts. St Jean le Blanc was taken without a fight, followed by a successful assault against the English in Les Augustins.

1429 May 7  Assault on English fort Les Tourelles. Joan had predicted that she would be wounded by an arrow above her breast. In the afternoon she is wounded and the French fall back. After removing the arrow she prays and then seizes her banner and leads her troops forward again.

The Tourelles is overwhelmed and falls to the French. That evening Joan re-enters Orleans to a great victory celebration.

1429 May 8  The English abandon their remaining siege positions and withdraw from Orleans.

1429 May 15 Joan meets with Charles VII at Loches and urges him to push forward to Reims for his coronation.

1429 June 2 Joan of Arc given armorial bearings by Charles VII of a sword holding a crown with a single fleur-de-lis on the left and right.

1429 June 10 Departs Orleans with Alencon to begin the Loire Valley campaigne.

1429 June 11-12  Joan of Arc attacks and captures the city of Jargeau.

1429 June 15  Army moves forward and captures fortified bridge at Meung-sur-Loire.

1429 June 17  Joan of Arc liberates Beaugency when English garrison withdraws.

1429 June 18  Joan wins a greatest military victory at Patay when her army decimates
English force under Lord Talbot. English dead are at least several thousand while French losses are less than a hundred.

1429 June 20  Joan of Arc visits Sully to urge Charles to proceed with her to Reims.

1429 June 24  Joan meets the army and Charles at Gien to begin the march to Reims.

1429 June 25  Joan sends a letter to the town of Tournai giving greetings.

1429 June 29  Joan of Arc with the royal army departs Gien.

1429 July 1-3 Army camped near the pro-Burgundian city of Auxerre, which refuses to surrender but agrees to neutrality.

1429 July 4  Joan sends a letter to the city of Troyes as her army approaches.

1429 July 5-9  Joan of Arc besieges the city of Troyes.

1429 July 9  Troyes surrenders just as Joan is about to conduct a full assault.

1429 July 14  Chalons-sur-Marne surrenders as Joan approaches the city.

1429 July 16  Reims opens its gates to Joan of Arc and Charles VII.

1429 July 17  Sends letter to Duke of Burgundy inviting him to unite with Charles VII.

1429 July 17  Charles VII is crowned King at the great Cathedral of Reims with Saint Joan of Arc standing beside him with her banner.

1429 July 21   Joan with Charles VII and Army begin meandering journey toward Paris.

1429 July 23   Soissons liberated by Joan and her army.

1429 July 29   Château-Thierry liberated.

1429 August 5  Joan sends a letter to the people of Reims.

1429 August 15 Joan of Arc fights minor engagement with English and Duke of Bedford at Montépilloy.

1429 August 22  Joan sends a letter responding to the Count of Armagnac.

1429 August 25  Joan arrives with Alencon at St. Denis to survey the Paris defenses.

1429 August 28  Charles VII formally ratifies another worthless treaty with Burgundy.

1429 September 8  Assault on Paris begins. Joan of Arc is wounded when a bolt from a crossbow hits her in the thigh near dusk. She refused to quit urging her soldiers to continue the attack. Against her orders she was carried from the battlefield and the assault ended.

1429 September 9  Joan plans to resume offensive but Charles intervenes and orders the army to withdraw.

1429 September 21 After marching back to Gien-sur-Loire Charles VII disbands the army.

1429 November 4  With smaller army Joan of Arc captures the town of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.

1429 November 9 Joan sends a letter to the people of Riom.

1429 Late Novem  Joan of Arc begins siege of La Charité-sur-Loire.

1429 December 25 Siege of La Charité-sur-Loire fails and Joan returns to Jargeau for Christmas.

1430 Jan-March  Joan stays with Charles at his court as an unwilling honored guest.

1430 January  Joan and her family elevated to nobility and given the name du Lys.

1430 March 16  Joan sends a letter to the people of Reims.

1430 March 28  Joan sends her final letter to the people of Reims.

1430 March 29  Joan leaves the court at Sully to join the French fighting at Lagney.

1430 April Joan prays for the dead child at Lagney that makes a miraculous recovery.

1430 April 17 Joan of Arc liberates the town of Melun.

1430 May 15 Joan of Arc goes to the aid of the town of Compiègne

1430 May 23  Captured by Burgundians when the drawbridge at Compiègne is raised.

1430 May-Nov  Joan of Arc remains a prisoner of the Burgundians at Beaurevior.

1430 October  Joan attempts to escape by leaping from the tower where she is held. She survives the 60-foot fall but is re-captured.

1430 Mid-Nov  Joan is sold to the English by the Duke of Burgundy for ten thousand francs.

1430 December 25  Arrives in Rouen for her trial orchestrated by the English to kill her and destroy her reputation with the ultimate goal of making her crowning of Charles VII illegitimate.

1431 Jan-Feb Held in prison cell shackled to bed while pro-English clergy made preparations for her trial.

1430 February 21  Joan makes her first appearance in Cauchon's court before about 70 hand-picked members of the clergy. Joan cooperates but shows her resolve by refusing to swear she will answer all that they ask.

1430 March 1  Joan makes ominous prediction in court that "Before seven years the English will lose a greater prize than they did before Orleans."


1430 March 10  Cauchon re-convenes in Joan's cell away from public view with his most ruthless judges.

1430 March 27   Joan of Arc is read the seventy articles of accusation against her that Cauchon was able to concoct from her testimony.

1430 April 1  Joan became very ill after eating some fish given to her by Cauchon.


1430 May 9 Joan threatened with torture unless she denied her Voices and submits herself to the authority of the clergy present. She refuses and screams that she will retract anything they make her say.

1430 May 24  Joan is taken to the cemetery of St. Ouen where they threaten to burn her if she does not abjure. She finally agrees after they promise to take her to a Church prison.

1430 May 27  After being taken back to her prison cell she is trapped by English soldiers into wearing her old clothes that she agreed not to wear. When the clergy found her they said she had relapsed.

1430 May 30 Joan of Arc pronounced a relapsed heretic and burned in Rouen's square by English soldiers. Her last words were "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."

1450 Early  After Rouen is liberated Charles VII decides it is time to restore Joan's name (and remove any taint of heresy from his crown) so he requests that the Church launch a Trial of Nullification

1456 July 7    After investigating Joan of Arc's life and the transcripts of her trial at Rouen for six years, the Church overturned Joan's conviction. In the Church's ruling, Joan is declared a martyr who was wrongly executed by
corrupt partisan clergy abusing a Church trial for secular purposes.

1909 April 18   Saint Joan of Arc officially beatified by Pope Pius X.

1920 May 16  Saint Joan of Arc officially canonized by Pope Benedict XV.