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St. Joan of Arc at the Notre Dame Cathedral, where she was beatified.
St. Joan of Arc at the Notre Dame Cathedral, where she was beatified.
Credit: Steven G. Johnson

Joan of Arc, also known as Jeanne d'Arc, was a national heroine of France and is a canonized saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War.