📫 YOU'VE GOT A MESSAGE 📫 21ST JULY 2021

Today's message is taken from "GODDESSES & SIRENS" by Stacey Demarco & illustrated by Jimmy Manton

JEANNE D'ARC "FAITH"
Develop faith in yourself and a spiritual power. Hold on to your dreams even through adversity. The issue of trust comes into importance. You must trust your own leadership abilities or develop them. Be not afraid - you were born for this!
The "Maid of Orleans," the teenage Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) remains one of history's greatest women. The sheer amount of primary sources left to us including eyewitness accounts, court documents and even letters written by Jeanne herself, are testament to the incredible power of this young woman. She remains a national heroine of France, a Catholic Saint, a symbol of political repression and an inspiration to women the world over.
Part of the magic of Jeanne is that she was a country peasant girl born in 1412 of humble origins into a society that was patriarchal and very hierarchical. The daughter of ordinary people, she claimed to have been receiving divine visits from Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine since she was a child.
In a time of civil unrest, the Hundred Years War, two French factions, the Armangnacs and the Burgundians were fighting for the throne and the English invaders, backing the Burgundians, were taking advantage of this chaos. Jeanne was told by her 'visions' to lift the siege of Orleans and to take the Dauphin (the uncrowned Charles VII) to Rheims for his coronation. She managed to get access to, and convince Lord Robert de Baudricourt to take her to present her views to the Dauphin. She famously cut off her long hair and dressed in a male page's clothes for the journey so that she would not be conspicuous over the long ride. The Dauphin was sufficiently impressed by her to insist on her being examined by high-ranking theologians and inquisitors. All deemed that Jeanne had "nothing improper has been found in her only good, humility, chastity, piety, propriety, simplicity."
And so, an army was raised by Charles and she rode with him to Orleans where a series of mighty victories encouraged a campaign that quickly put Charles on the throne in Rheims. Dressed in shining armour, riding astride a battle horse and carrying her battle standard, Jeanne inspired and rallied all on the battlefield. It is hard to imagine a teenager leading an army and negotiating for truces but we see her strength and conviction in her communications to her enemy: her Second Letter to the English in 1429 states: "My lord commands you to go back to your own land: for it is His will or otherwise I will cause such a disaster for you."
She was involved in a number of campaigns over the next year and was also wounded and recovered. She continually planned strategy as well as wrote long letters about bringing all of France back to the light of God. In 1430, a Burgundian army had laid siege to the city of Compiegne and although Jeanne had predicted her own capture she still attempted to save it. She was captured by the English/Burgundian force and this triggered the events that would see her eventually put on trial for heresy.Jeanne was incredibly intelligent and her trial transcripts make sobering reading. They attacked everything from her visions, to her loyalty to the kind, even to her hairstyle and clothes. Her answers were not those of a disturbed young woman but instead, highly aware and astute. Her faith in herself and her God shone through in the face of hostile clergy, a barrage of lawmakers and death itself.
Whilst Jeanne was charged and convicted of heresy, this was only a crime if it was repeated. One of the stipulations of her 'reform' was that she only dress in feminine clothing. Still imprisoned, she complained that she was the victim of an attempted rape and as such, decided again to dress in men's clothing for her own protection. This was enough to condemn her and she was executed by burning at the stake simply for dressing in a man's likeness. Eyewitness accounts say that she held onto her faith until the end and asked to have a cross held so she could see it as she burnt. In 1456 a legal retrial in absentia absolved her from her 'crimes' over 500 years prior and Jeanne d'Arc was made a saint in 1920. Her statues are all over France but her most famous rests in the beautiful Notre Dame Church in Paris.
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