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St. Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854; in the Louvre, Paris.
St. Joan of Arc believed that her mission to expel the English and their Burgundian allies from the Valois kingdom of France was guided by the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine of Alexandria, and St. Margaret of Antioch.1
Her conviction in the divine origin of these voices was central to her identity and sustained her throughout her military campaigns and her subsequent trial. This claim of direct communication with the divine was a significant point of contention during her trial, as it challenged the authority of the institutional church and the priesthood of her time.213