Every May 21, the novena begins in honor of Saint Joan of Arc, a 19-year-old girl who died unjustly at the stake and is the patron saint of France.
Saint Joan of Arc was born in Domrémy in the year 1412. She was unjustly tried and sentenced to the worst of deaths at that time: being burned alive at the stake.
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The story goes that, after the sentence against them was carried out, more than one returned home saying: “Today we burned a saint“.
23 years later, the case of the young Joan of Arc was reopened and Pope Calixtus III appointed a commission that concluded that the sentence had been an injustice.
Joan of Arc was then declared innocent and Pope Benedict XV proclaimed her a saint.
His festival is celebrated every May 30. Here we present a preparation novena:
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