{"id":87859,"date":"2012-05-01T01:59:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T05:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87859\/poem-la-miracle\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T01:59:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T05:59:45","slug":"poem-la-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87859\/poem-la-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: La Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was created for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/87729\/simple-sunday-istavan-sandorfi\/\">CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The amazing art is by Istafan Sandorfi.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/PicnPoems\/?action=view&amp;current=SS42712.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/PicnPoems\/SS42712.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SS42712\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">From Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joan of Arc<\/strong>, nicknamed &#8220;<strong>The Maid of Orl\u00e9ans<\/strong>&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_language\">French<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Jeanne d&#8217;Arc<\/em>,<\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> ca. 1412\u00a0\u2013 30 May 1431), is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_hero\">national heroine<\/a> of France and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Catholic_saint\">Roman Catholic saint<\/a>. A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peasant\">peasant<\/a> girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hundred_Years%27_War\">Hundred Years&#8217; War<\/a>, which paved the way for the coronation of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_VII_of_France\">Charles VII<\/a>. She was captured by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burgundian_(party)\">Burgundians<\/a>, transferred to the English in exchange for money, put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais for charges of &#8220;insubordination and heterodoxy,&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_by_burning\">burned at the stake<\/a> as a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heresy\">heretic<\/a> when she was 19 years old.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Twenty-five years after the execution, an Inquisitorial court authorized by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Callixtus_III\">Pope Callixtus III<\/a> examined the trial, pronounced her innocent and declared her a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martyr\">martyr<\/a> Joan of Arc was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beatification\">beatified<\/a> in 1909 and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canonization\">canonized<\/a> in 1920. She is\u00a0\u2013 along with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Denis\">St. Denis<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Martin_of_Tours\">St. Martin of Tours<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Louis_IX\">St. Louis IX<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Theresa_of_Lisieux\">St. Theresa of Lisieux<\/a> \u2013 one of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patron_saint\">patron saints<\/a> of France.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was created for the CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge. \u00a0The amazing art is by Istafan Sandorfi. From Wikipedia: Joan of Arc, nicknamed &#8220;The Maid of Orl\u00e9ans&#8221; (French:\u00a0Jeanne d&#8217;Arc, ca. 1412\u00a0\u2013 30 May 1431), is a\u00a0national heroine of France and a\u00a0Roman Catholic saint. 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