Sr. Laure Blanchon of the Ursulines of the Roman Union met with GSR in Paris to discuss how the French Catholic church can reform and be faithful to its mission, in the wake of abuse revelations.
Joan of Arc, national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War. Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned to death as a heretic.