Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc is known as a national heroin of France who was born in 1412 and died in 1431. She was only seventeen years old when she led the French army to several victories against the English. Joan believed she had visions from God that told her to recover her homeland from English domination; because of that she was later captured, tried and convicted of heresy by an English-controlled church. She was nineteen when the church decided to burn her at the stake. Twenty four years later, Joan of Arc’s case was reviewed and she was found innocent. The Catholic church decided then to canonized her.