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Joan of Arc
Everything seems hopeless. her country is being seized be invaders. The King, with all thoughts of reclaiming his throne forgotten, parties with his court Meanwhile, a young farm girl, Joan, who since the age of fourteen has been blessed with visions as well as messages from the Saints, is told to save France. ....
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.... damaging statements. When she refused to retract the statement that it was the saints of god who commanded her to do what she did, she was condemned to death as a heretic and a sorceress. She was then burned at the stake on May 30, 1431. She was nineteen. Thirty years later she was absolved of all guilt and she was canonized in 1920, making official what the people had known for centuries.
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