WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Joan later testified that when she was thirteen, around 1425, a figure she identified as Saint Michael surrounded by angels appeared to her in the garden. After this vision, she said she wept because she wanted them to take her with them.

Detailed explanation-2: -When Joan was around twelve years old she had a vision. She saw Michael the Archangel. He told her that she was to lead the French in a battle against the English. After she drove the English out she was to take the king to be crowned at Rheims.

Detailed explanation-3: -At the age of 13, Joan began to hear voices, which she determined had been sent by God to give her a mission of overwhelming importance: to save France by expelling its enemies, and to install Charles as its rightful king. As part of this divine mission, Joan took a vow of chastity.

Detailed explanation-4: -When did Charles and Joan first meet? Joan arrived at the Royal Court, in the town of Chinon, in 1429, when she was still only 17 years old and Charles was 26. Thanks to having de Baudricourt’s support, she was permitted a private meeting with Charles.

Detailed explanation-5: -The English claimed many offenses against Joan of Arc. But when they burned her at the stake in Rouen, France on May 30, 1431, they not only immortalized the 19-year-old, but made her a national symbol for the French cause during the long-fought Hundred Years’ War.

Detailed explanation-6: -Summary. In 1425, English and Burgundian forces drove off all of Domremy’s cattle and burned the town. The same year of this trauma, when Joan was 13, she started hearing “voices.” The first of these voices spoke to her from her father’s garden, and was accompanied by a blinding white light.