A Teenage Girl Saves France

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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May 16, 1920. Tens of thousands of people surround St. Peter’s Basilica to honor Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl who died nearly five hundred years before. Joan’s feats in battle—and her visions of God—have become legendary since her heyday during The Hundred Years War. And today, the Catholic Church is making her a saint. But Joan was a real person – and while many supported her during her lifetime, many others wanted her dead. Who was this curious figure? And how did her faith turn the tides of a seemingly endless age of violence?

Special thanks to our guests: Nancy Goldstone, author of The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc, and Charity Urbanski, associate history professor at the University of Washington.

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0:00.0	The History Channel, original podcast.
0:04.9	History this week, May 16, 1920.
0:10.0	I'm Sally Helm.
0:16.0	The streets of Rome are crowded with cars.
0:19.2	As tens of thousands of people make their way
0:22.8	towards St. Peter's Basilica.
0:25.9	A reporter observing the scene says
0:28.2	you can spot cardinals behind some of the car windows
0:31.4	decked out in their crimson robes.
0:33.6	Plus the occasional mon senior in purple.
0:38.0	On foot, all streaming in the same direction,
0:40.9	there are monks and nuns and ordinary people.
0:45.2	Some of Rome's children have clambered up the colony
0:48.1	and to try and get a look.
0:50.4	They're all here to honor a person
0:53.3	who none of them has ever met.
0:56.0	Because we lived 500 years ago,
1:00.3	a French teenager named Joan of Arc.
1:04.7	Joan's feats in battle and her visions of God
1:08.6	are the stuff of legend.
1:11.1	And today, the Catholic Church will give her its highest honor.
1:16.4	Joan will be canonized, made a saint.
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