Here are many fine websites about Joan. This one here is more personal and created by a student, Carolie Wolf. Perhaps Joan was a model for this 21st century warrior and young woman defending the people she loves.
Carolie also shows how Joan is connected to the film Frozen. Joan of Arc is the Katniss Everdeen of her time. She is definitely is one bad chick.
She accomplished so much in her short time alive, and meant a lot to men and women alike, even though she was burned to death at age Joan of Arc was born to a family of peasants, and not much after that is recorded, but the important part is she had visions of angels and heard voices that would tell her to save her country, and all of her family and town told her not to pursue these visions for the longest time, and then eventually, when she decided not to give up her faith, they finally supported her and some rich people who lived near her gave her money to go to Chinon, France to see the king, King Charles the seventh.
After her capture by the English, Joan was tried for witchcraft, heresy, and dressing as a man. She was locked in a tower at Rouen and she still stood by her beliefs, and never gave up her faith even though it could save her life, she still stood by her visions from angels. The people who came after her in the five centuries since her death tried to make everything of her: demonic fanatic, spiritual mystic, naive and tragically ill-used tool of the powerful, creator and icon of modern popular nationalism, adored heroine, saint.
She insisted, even when threatened with torture and faced with death by fire, that she was guided by voices from God. Voices or no voices, her achievements leave anyone who knows her story shaking his head in amazed wonder. Canonization is just the process that the Catholic church has to go through to make a holy person a saint.
